What do you find fascinating about your subject?
Be enthusiastic about your subject, why do you teach it, what do you enjoy.
Think about your subject and make a decision based on that.
How can one possibly get critical distance about your subject when such moments are part of your experience of him?
Are you an effective classroom teacher, confident about your subject knowledge, demonstrating good organisation and behaviour management?
Obviously, you have to be realistic about your subject matter – you couldn't make Star Trek on one".
Putting together a module does, of course, reveal something about yourself, and what you believe is important about your subject.
Second, there's "People Who Might Know": people from Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus and blogs who have posted publicly about your subject.
But you can't build moral authority on lack of curiosity about your subject matter, and architecture shouldn't always be judged by theme park values.
Perhaps Nicky Morgan has forgotten to open the door of being passionate about your subject, of having a drive to study that subject day in, day out.
You get your papers published, you get tenure, maybe you win some prizes; all this says that your colleagues believe that your stuff is right, that you really do know something about your subject.
