 For my particular teaching style, I think it's the most important thing because I really rely on student feedback to validate not so much what I'm trying to get across but how I'm getting it across. I have a very good idea of what I would like my students to know at the end of a class and rather than waiting to be three times a year that you can run just a simple test or something, your basic exam. I think having students in a position where they're comfortable enough to say I don't know or I don't agree is important and ways that I try and break down the barriers that exist in any classroom when you walk and at least with students who don't know you is to be as casual as possible in the class. I know it's hard to believe looking at me here. But to reduce as much as possible any unnecessary barriers in terms of dialogue. The area that I teach in is technically quite sophisticated. It's full of Latin and Greek anatomical terms and it's easy to engage in what I call neurogeeky speaking and the student is just looking at me like what planet is this person from and so I kind of warn students that the area is kind of like that and what I hope is that by the end of the quarter we've all progressed enough especially them to the point where I can do that and they'll understand. But early on in the quarter when I don't speak in plain English they not be afraid to say you know what I have no idea what you just said or what that means and I can go back and clarify for them. I typically give up copies of my lecture notes and make them available on Blackboard and the reason I do that is that the students will have an idea of what I think is important in the assigned readings for that day in an outline form and because they already know that it gives me the freedom to think on my feet to throw in anecdotes, stories, other things from outside the reading and it also gives them a chance to steer the discussion to things that they're interested in. At the end of the class no matter what goes on in the class the students will have that nutshell of the lecture notes and then literally for every class the clothes are a little bit different. The lecture notes are the skeleton and then we dress it up how we see fit.