Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Watch Suzannah Niepold of the Smithsonian American Art Museum guide teachers [...] »
How do the speeches of Sojourner Truth and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper [...] »
Tour Monticello with TAH teachers and learn about the history behind Thomas [...] »
Professor Meredith Lair examines a 1971 political cartoon and what it says [...] »
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
Teaching in Action
Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
The fictional Alphonse the Camel provides insight for one classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
What questions should you ask when viewing maps as historical evidence?
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So you don't live near Gettysburg or the Alamo—can you still teach with [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »