Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social [...] »
Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »
Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »
What do the contents of pockets say about their owners? TAH teachers model [...] »
Historian Allida Black analyzes FDR's April 28, 1935 Fireside Chat. What [...] »
Teaching in Action
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
Using Primary Sources
So you don't live near Gettysburg or the Alamo—can you still teach with [...] »
Transform film from a source of entertainment to a piece of historical [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »