Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Analyzing a massive primary source? Divide it up! Teachers at the [...] »
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold of the Smithsonian American Art Museum guide teachers [...] »
How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »
Is reading a piece of historic literature once enough? Not if you want to [...] »
Teaching in Action
Eighth-grade teacher Amy Trenkle keeps students on-task before, during, and [...] »
Teacher Bill Kendrat demonstrates the techniques he uses to draw students in [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical [...] »
Every town has a scattering of historical markers and statues. Discover what [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »