This chapter uses the teacher-identity model to highlight significant ways in which teachers can acknowledge and make productive use of their "humanness" in their professional work. Humanistic psychology reminds us to always consider how the conditions of learning in our classroom can encourage and motivate students and must be for all students. Adopting a teacher-identity approach demands that you pay close, honest attention to the pluses and minuses of the parts of your personality that impact your daily planning and appear in your teaching. Teacher burnout is a persistent sense of exhaustion, hopelessness, or powerlessness that decreases one's effectiveness and satisfaction with teaching, and can lead to a departure from the profession. Successful teaching is both a personal, often emotional set of productive human relationships and a product of specialized knowledge, rigorous training, and proven methods.