2015 Sense Publishers. All rights reserved. Teaching plays an important role in all of our lives and provides us opportunities to learn from others including parents, friends, and of course, our classroom teachers. It can occur in formal as well as informal settings and is a form of practice that is so common in our society that it often goes unnoticed. Everyone is a teacher in some form; however, not everyone engages in teaching as a professional practice. The same is the case when parents use Band-Aids to take care of their childs minor scratches but are not trained in the professional practice as medical doctors to take care of their childs broken arm. In contrast to medical doctors practices, teaching, as a professional practice, still needs more systematic studies to identify what helps determine good teaching practices and what helps make a good teacher.
