Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »
How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its [...] »
What do the contents of pockets say about their owners? TAH teachers model [...] »
Excite students by introducing them to primary sources that answer questions [...] »
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
The fictional Alphonse the Camel provides insight for one classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
See this Flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question sources [...] »
Looking for new ideas on how to teach with the historic places in your [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
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 [...] »