Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
A student demonstrates thinking aloud reading two documents.
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What do the contents of pockets say about their owners? TAH teachers model [...] »
Chandra Manning discusses the song “John Brown's Body,” and how music can be [...] »
If students lack historical context, they can miss the substance of a [...] »
Teaching in Action
Introducing your students to primary sources for the first time? Watch [...] »
Did two bullets begin WWI? Explore causation in your classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Discover historic landscapes with this guide to reading the land produced by [...] »
Looking for new ideas on how to teach with the historic places in your [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »