Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »
If the U.S. interned you and your family, how would you respond?
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Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
How does the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in Washington, DC, depict Grant and [...] »
Teaching in Action
Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
A 5th-grade teacher teaches historical context through roleplaying [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Advertisements have surrounded us for years. How can you interpret them? [...] »
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »