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Steve Hiles

If You Want to Learn Something — Teach it!

Giving your students opportunities to “teach” each other allows them to exercise many skills and build their abilities as leaders and persuasive speakers.

Teacher Tips
Steve Hiles

The Report Card and the Evaluation Process

Educators know that parent/guardian communication is vital to a student’s success, as lessons being taught in class can consistently be reinforced in the home environment.

Brain Training
Steve Hiles

Brain-Based Teaching: Part 3

Musical elements like tempo, meter, rhythm, frequency, harmony, and tuning systems can be used to demonstrate math (and language/literature) concepts in real applications that students can hear and experience.

Brain Training
Steve Hiles

Brain-Based Teaching: Part 2

If you have never used music in the classroom, I would recommend that you gradually introduce music into the classroom to coincide with your instruction.

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Brain Training
Steve Hiles

Brain-based Teaching: Part 1

I have used a variety of techniques that scientists have shown make a real difference to the brain and student learning.

Teacher Tips
Steve Hiles

Changing Mental States

By changing mental states often, you can enhance the learning process.

Steve Hiles

I am a retired military and elementary school teacher living in Tennessee. I am an avid reader and love to write. I am very passionate about helping teachers. I hope you find my educational tips and strategies useful and enjoy hearing about my personal journey. Thanks for visiting!

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