Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Watch Briana Zavadil White introduce teachers to portraits of inventors and [...] »
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article [...] »
Professor Meredith Lair examines a 1971 political cartoon and what it says [...] »
Watch J. Douglas Smith discuss the Massive Resistance policy enacted by U.S [...] »
Use autobiographies to deconstruct views of slavery and historical heroes. [...] »
Teaching in Action
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
Using Primary Sources
The Bracero Archive’s tutorial shows how to conduct successful interviews. [...] »
Transform film from a source of entertainment to a piece of historical [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »