Open Brainstorms

also someone that makes lots of links and connections to other concepts and ideas!

a person that is very articulate,

Someone who can remember how they felt when they were just starting to learn, and can draw on that to help them empathise with learners.

A person who has been or who is currently a practitioner and not merely a theorizer.

Contagious passion for the subject.

involving practical implications making subject easy to understand and must always take an interactive session which a little humor to ease nerve senses....

The 1 who can make the subject interesting such that students can relate to it.Also conducting subject related games n rewarding (in terms of xtra points) for d same!

An instructor that knows his or her material before teaching in front of the class, Then breaking his or her material down so the students can understand what he or she is talking about. Some teachers don't really know all of their material before they get up in front of the class, all they do is go off the subject in class to fill in for what they lost or didn't have time to study.

Organization and the ability to connect ideas to the everyday world.

He`s the one who can get his level changed as per the learner`s or student`s level and make them understand things in the easiest possible way by taking help of visual objects or examples when and where possible.Also interaction is very important.This way learning would be fun and will lead to increase the interest of the student.

Professors that make you excited about writing papers or doing projects because they have added an element of competition, challenge or further application to the material

If a professor can make lecture interesting, s/he has won me over. I once had a philosophy professor that spoke each day as the philosopher of choice in first-person! It was awesome, and he was by far my favorite prof.

Common sense to understand each students level, verstality to attract students towards himself/herself and implement the toughest theories in a simple way.

One who can handle the theory, but immerse students in practical application

Ability to take his or her thorough knowledge of the subject and tone it down into simple terms and get to the level of understanding of the student.

Kindness and humility

One who can make the learnings "stick" in the students' head. Read http://www.madetostick.com

someone who is willing to take the time to listen to the students' point of view about various issues.