1.2 Teacher Presence & Communication

Developing the communication and interpersonal skills needed to lead learning effectively. Emerging Educators learn to communicate clearly, give effective instructions and explanations, ask purposeful questions, facilitate participation, and build positive relationships with learners.

Sub-topic	Keep / change	Rationale	Research/search keywords
Teacher confidence & self-efficacy	Move to Teacher Growth & Wellbeing	Important, but better understood as a professional development factor than a communication skill	teacher self-efficacy, teacher confidence, teacher self-efficacy beliefs
Teacher presence & non-verbal communication	Keep, but narrow	Useful for educators who may have little formal training, but shouldn't become generic presentation training	teacher presence, teacher nonverbal communication, teacher body language, teacher voice
Giving clear instructions	Keep	Highly practical and directly affects whether learners can participate successfully	instructional clarity, giving instructions, teacher instructions, classroom directions
Explaining & modelling	Keep / strengthen	Core teaching behaviour; connects strongly to effective instruction	teacher explanation, instructional explanation, modelling in teaching, explicit instruction, worked examples
Questioning	Keep	Important for checking understanding, eliciting thinking and moving beyond teacher monologue	teacher questioning, questioning techniques, classroom questioning, higher-order questioning
Facilitating discussions	Keep	Particularly relevant for active and participatory learning	classroom discussion, discussion-based teaching, dialogic teaching, discussion facilitation
Storytelling	Move / optional	Valuable in some contexts, but not sufficiently universal to justify a core Emerging Educator topic	storytelling in education, narrative pedagogy
Teacher–learner relationships	Keep	Important foundation for trust, participation and classroom climate	teacher-student relationships, teacher learner relationship, teacher-student rapport, positive teacher-student interaction