2dots, I've checked out a couple guys in similiar situations to you and I have to be honest I was trying to learn as much as I was "teaching" within the confines of safety. In my short time instructing though, the ATP with a 767 type rating has scared me the most so far. He wasn't flying the 172 like a little airplane. 70kts and flaring a couple feet off the runway takes a little adjustment after all those years at 140kts and flaring 50 feet off. Ah well, it only took the stall horn to quickly correct and not do it again. The sign of a good pilot!

Biggest problem with instructing, it's only a means to an end. They're just building time to move on. A lot of people view their regional/check hauling job in the same light and with the same ire. My view is that you should do the best you can while you're there because 1) You owe it to your students and 2) you don't know how long you'll truely be there. How many people out there thought that 4 or more years to upgrade in an RJ would be commonplace? When I started at Parks everybody was getting swept up by TSA with 500 total as soon as they graduated, upgrading right at ATP mins, and moving on to TWA within 3 years of graduation. The year 2000 seems like it was eons ago...