Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
If the U.S. interned you and your family, how would you respond?
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Who was Jane Addams, and how is her article "Why Women Should Vote" still [...] »
What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
Teaching in Action
Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
High school students use primary sources to question their textbook's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical [...] »
Don't overlook song as a way of understanding the past.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
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, [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »