Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Analyzing a source requires context for a more complete understanding.
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Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis [...] »
TAH teachers get an introduction to Monticello as Thomas Jefferson's ' [...] »
Watch Briana Zavadil White introduce teachers to portraits of inventors and [...] »
A student demonstrates thinking aloud reading two documents.
[...] »Teaching in Action
Eighth-grade teacher Amy Trenkle keeps students on-task before, during, and [...] »
High school students use primary sources to question their textbook's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Quantitative data, although seemingly daunting and impersonal, can help you [...] »
See this Flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question sources [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »