Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
In the struggle for women's suffrage, how did African American women [...] »
Professor Meredith Lair examines a 1971 political cartoon and what it says [...] »
What do the contents of pockets say about their owners? TAH teachers model [...] »
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »
Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis [...] »
Teaching in Action
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
Using Primary Sources
See this Flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question sources [...] »
When visiting historical sites, sometimes you need a visual/emotional "hook [...] »
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 [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »