Classroom verbal behavior of highly effective teachers

Abstract

In response to the growing awareness of the critical problems within our educational system, instructional communication researchers have begun to build a body of literature addressing the issue of quality instruction. The strength of this literature rests within its ability to highlight the importance of the communication climate within the classroom. Typically, instructional communication researchers will borrow variables (immediacy, power, style) found to be predictive of competence within different environments (organizations, public speaking, theater, etc. ,) and hypothesize that these same variables will enhance the quality of classroom outcomes.