Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »
Professor Meredith Lair examines a 1971 political cartoon and what it says [...] »
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
What can a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 reveal? Donald A. [...] »
How do the speeches of Sojourner Truth and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper [...] »
Teaching in Action
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical [...] »
Eighth-grade teacher Amy Trenkle keeps students on-task before, during, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Transform film from a source of entertainment to a piece of historical [...] »
Watch a scholar interpret letters from labor activist and reformer Sarah [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »