ABSTRACT
This chapter provides to assist building insight into the professional identity characteristics that produce, promote, and foster learning, and explores what qualities make for effective and influential teachers. They will include: experiential exercises for self-awareness and to strengthen teaching; guided activity to explore personal characteristics that may foster and hinder effective teaching; questions to deepen counselor educators' self-reflection about identity as an educator in counselor education and quiz. A video recording of teaching is valuable because it provides an unaltered and unbiased vantage point for how effective counselor educators' lesson may from both a teacher and student perspective. In addition, collaborate after the observation and hear counselor educators' colleague's feedback, answers to questions. Using counselor educators' own life experience and impressions, make a list of the interpersonal dynamics and teaching skills that feel as necessary to successful as a teacher.
