Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Tour Monticello with TAH teachers and learn about the history behind Thomas [...] »
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article [...] »
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
What do slave receipts reveal? Ever considered using similar documents to [...] »
Teaching in Action
The fictional Alphonse the Camel provides insight for one classroom.
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Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Explore the SOCC analysis technique with this great website.
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Textbook illustrations are often overlooked as historical evidence.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »