While the popular media often portray good teachers as charismatic “sages on the stage,” skillful teaching is a sophisticated cognitive process in an intensely interpersonal environment whose most fundamental activities are less dramatic and often invisible to the casual observer.
Skillful teaching requires:
• designing meaningful lessons that engage and ultimately ensure success for all students;
• developing a highly-nuanced professional judgment informed by both “hard” and “soft” evidence to assess student learning and to determine the most appropriate teaching methods;
• applying emotional intelligence and human relations skills with students, parents, and colleagues in complex and ever-changing circumstances;
• engaging in professional learning and collaboration with colleagues to continuously improve teaching and learning; and
• managing personal energy and time to enable vitality both in school and at home.
What have I missed?
Dennis Sparks on re·sil·ience 
With so much use of data to inform instruction, and the ever-increasing use of online resources for information, practice, and assessment, teachers need to have knowledge and skill in the selection and use of those resources.
An excellent addition to the list! Thanks, Jody.
I support student teachers as they venture into this world of “skillful teaching.” Your “bulleted” indicators encompass heart, hand, and head of teaching – SO VERY COMPLEX.
Teaching is indeed a very complex and therefore demanding profession! I appreciate you reminding us of that, Peggy.