Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What do the contents of pockets say about their owners? TAH teachers model [...] »
What does an 1853 daguerreotype have to say? Plenty, says Frank Goodyear, [...] »
Written primary sources only tell you so much. To learn about history that [...] »
Watch J. Douglas Smith discuss the Massive Resistance policy enacted by U.S [...] »
Close observation and an inquisitive mind are all the tools you need to [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 4th-grade teacher shows strategies for encouraging and supporting student [...] »
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Integrate these two guides into your curriculum to help students develop [...] »
Advertisements have surrounded us for years. How can you interpret them? [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »