Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What is the key line in Franklin D. Roosevelt's second inaugural address? [...] »
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »
How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »
Analyzing a source requires context for a more complete understanding.
[...] »Teaching in Action
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
Using Primary Sources
So you don't live near Gettysburg or the Alamo—can you still teach with [...] »
Looking for new ideas on how to teach with the historic places in your [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »