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Critical energizing components for teachers.

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Understanding where someone has been is important to learning. Creating an environment for people to be encouraged to learn from you is even important. Check out some validated principles for charging an environment for creative learning.  Long (2002) provides a list of positive characteristics of the kind of teacher necessary to teach for learning, e.g. they are creative, flexible, risk-takers, friendly, learner-centered, have a sense of humor. In addition, a teacher should be able to nurture students, is optimistic, positive, self-confident, enthusiastic and passionate about the subject matter (Long, 2002, p. 39). In sum, an effective teacher is one who is self-aware. After dealing with the necessary attributes of the teacher, Long promoted six critical elements of a proper teaching context. Teachers seeking to create energizing environments are encouraged by Long to follow these ten critical energizing principles:  (1) create activity oriented environments;  (2