Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
Analyzing a massive primary source? Divide it up! Teachers at the [...] »
Two letters from 1800 Tripoli lead into a story of piracy, privateering, [...] »
Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »
Teaching in Action
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Learn how to teach your students historical thinking with this informative [...] »
Source and approach letters and diaries with historical thinking.
[...] »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, [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »