Authenticity

To me, when you don't feel like yourself, like you are putting on an act, you are no longer being authentic. I think students can very easily see right through this act of faking authenticity. All it takes is one or two questions that aren't really known, but made up, for a student to see very clearly that the teacher really does not know what is going on. When a teacher is not being authentic, it is very easy for the students to follow in this act as well. Most commonly I believe when a teacher tries to put on an act to answer "why are we learning this?" It is very easy for the students to lose focus, because if the teacher obviously doesn't know why they are learning it, why should they?