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A magic formula for good teaching

So many people seem to have a magic formula when it comes to teaching: If everybody just did this, then it would all be better.   Bad teachers will become good teachers.  Good teachers will become great teachers.  Students wouldn't fail.  Progression stats would improve.  Student satisfaction would rocket to 100%. We should all use this acronym.  This model.  This form. Every teaching session should include these three key elements... ...each mapped onto fourteen different domains... ...and cross-referenced with these twenty-eight competencies. Here is my forty-five-tab spreadsheet you should all use.  I will explain it to you through a series of four-hour workshops spread throughout the term and we will spend the rest of the year checking that you are all using it.  After all, it worked so well for me it is inconceivable that it wouldn't work equally as well for everybody else. Except that it doesn't.  It never does. These magic formulas are whisked in from some other Univ