A teacher's style of communication tells students how to interpret the instructional content and affects students' feelings toward the teacher and the class. A variety of communication styles, style levels, and units of analysis of style are discernable. (Author/MSE)

Classrooms can serve as laboratories for experimenting with collaboration rather than win-lose conflict styles. Productive conflict tactics and patterns of interaction can be used for all parties to learn effective conflict management. (Author/MSE)

A comparison of the acts and arts of teaching and loving suggests some similarities: that teaching is a revelation of the self more than it is the use of professorial postures, that authenticity is more important than authority, and that trust is essential. (MSE)

Nonverbal messages provide information to students about the instructor's preferences for interpersonal support, genuineness, and power, and have a direct impact on students' motivation to learn and attitudes toward content. (Author/MSE)

Feminist teaching practices, by questioning traditional epistemology and distribution of power, offer special advantages in the culturally diverse classroom, where the valuing of different perspectives is essential. A study of two feminist teachers demonstrates how they attempt to create new kinds of classroom cultures through mastery, voice,…