Teacher training

I've just been invited to assess high school students' applications for a university-taught teaching program. The students have to explain why teaching appeals to them as a career, what they think it involves, and what it means to be a good teacher. Not easy questions - and I'll have to answer very similar ones when I apply to study teaching - but the students have some great answers. Many of them mention passion, organisation, effective communication, getting and sustaining students' interest, integrating ICT, and discipline. Some appear to have reflected deeply, mentioning things like identifying what some students need more help with than others, assessing their own delivery style, continuing to learn, aligning ICT and pedagogy (one of them notes that computers and ICT are much more effective when they are there to support the teaching - sounds good to me), and learning from their students.