The basics of good teaching is a mindset. “You’ve got to love your students. It’s as simple as that”, a colleague of mine once said. You could look into some of Kieran Egan’s writings:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran_Egan_(philosopher)

Personally I found the book To Know as We are Known very inspirational:

https://www.amazon.com/Know-Are-Known-Education-Spiritual/dp...