Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Use autobiographies to deconstruct views of slavery and historical heroes. [...] »
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold guide TAH teachers through analyzing the differences [...] »
Donald A. Ritchie, Historian of the U.S. Senate, asks how a political [...] »
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
Teaching in Action
Discover the multiple strategies 5th-grade teacher Jennifer Brouhard uses in [...] »
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Incorporate art into lesson plans with this resource from The Metropolitan [...] »
Integrate these two guides into your curriculum to help students develop [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »