What I'm reading: The elements of teaching

From Banner and Cannon's The Elements of Teaching:

Teaching is a calling that involves:

• Learning - ongoing mastery of a body of knowledge, appreciating the act and process of learning, being open to the knowledge of others
• Authority - command respect through knowledge and presentation, encourage ambition, acknowledge status differnce between teacher(s) & student(s)
• Ethics - do no harm to students, be attentive of their welfare; set and keep high standards; demonstrate and teach ethics; acknowledge students' viewpoints, ways, and beliefs
• Order - use authority and leadership to provide direction and momentum to learning in a tranquil and disciplined classroom, maintain standards of order
• Imagination - use innovative teaching methods and aproaches to subjects, think of how knowledge will be applied in the future
• Compassion - know and understand students as whole persons, maintain high standards, acknowledge struggles and work towards positive future
• Patience - give students time to learn, help them grow and understand, don't loose sight of the goal and award achievement
• Charecter - be yourself, be consistent, acknowledge mistakes, be social
• Pleasure - create an atmosphere where students enjoy learning and teachers enjoy learning and teaching, acknowledge difficulties and recognize past successes

These traits were briefly descibed on pp. 138-139 in The Elements of Learning.