One of the best ways to learn a subject is to teach it. If you wish to be a good teacher, you have to immerse yourself in the topic and sort out what is needed and what is not. You have to take the needed and make it understandable, then take the understandable and make it memorable.
If you are alert and caring, each class will teach you something. It may be a lesson about pacing or how well a question was answered or how a concept may be misunderstood. My personal academic career has had plenty of great and terrible examples of teaching. The difference between those two types often boils down to caring. The lousy teachers simply didn't give a damn. [I recall a law school prof who would sit behind a desk, occasionally turn a page in the textbook, and mumble what he thought were profundities. I'm ashamed to say that none of us asked for our money back.]
Caring is crucial. Begin there and all else will follow.
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