Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Who was Jane Addams, and how is her article "Why Women Should Vote" still [...] »
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
Is reading a piece of historic literature once enough? Not if you want to [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »
In the struggle for women's suffrage, how did African American women [...] »
Teaching in Action
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
A 5th-grade teacher teaches historical context through roleplaying [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical [...] »
Check out these sites for excellent primary source material.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »