How do instructors balance demands to make courses challenging and at the same time make them accessible to students? How do instructors find a way to be informal and friendly with students at the same time they maintain proper authority and professional distance? How do instructors simultaneously meet the needs of learners who learn well in groups and those who learn better on their own? Donald Wulff believes that effective teaching rests on the ability to respond to tensions that are inherently a part of interactions between the professor, students, and context. Good teachers know how to make adjustments between competing demands—they “align” their instruction so that learning is achieved.