ABSTRACT
It is a teacher's job to influence. Teachers demonstrate, share, and facilitate. Teachers motivate and try to inspire students to learn. Teachers persuade and inform. In an instructional setting, a relationship is formed and maintained between a teacher and a student in order to stimulate and facilitate student learning. This relationship
is built and sustained by communication. Without communication and a relationship, a teacher cannot influence students. It is important to keep in mind that teacher influence should be a means to student learning and development. This unit of the book has examined instructional communication from the rhetorical perspective. Specifically, Chapter 3 provided an examination of audience. Chapter 4 examined the source. And Chapter 5 examined the message. This chapter continues focusing on the rhetorical perspective by focusing on how teachers use information from audience, source, and message to influence students.
