Thanks again, Brion. That's the way I see it as well.
I don't see any way to do a PM (private message), but I want to say this, so I'll take a bit of liberty to say it here:
I've been teaching at a community college for almost 20 years. I know good and bad "teachers" almost as soon as I see them in action. One of the things that good teachers do is break down complex problems to a logical sequence of less complicated steps. Another thing is they have insight to the "student's" perspective and knowledge base and work from that level. Good teachers have a way of gaining students' confidence and projecting the idea that "they" can do what their being taught. Probably most important of all is the hard-to-define talent of transferring knowledge. I believe this is one of the main things that separates excellent teachers from good teachers.
You exhibit all these things, and more. You clearly are a gifted instructor. I also enjoy those subtle humorous comments you make during the presentations, one for example, describing the enlarging of the core diameter from burying the cover/core inside the cover - "...it gets shorter and fatter, like we all do....". I could go on but, suffice it to say, WELL DONE!
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