Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Take a look at artifacts from the past—what might they be? Teachers model [...] »
Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was [...] »
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article [...] »
What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Bill Kendrat demonstrates the techniques he uses to draw students in [...] »
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 [...] »
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »