Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts [...] »
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
What is the key line in Franklin D. Roosevelt's second inaugural address? [...] »
Analyzing a massive primary source? Divide it up! Teachers at the [...] »
Teaching the Reconstruction? Ford's Theatre's Sarah Jencks leads teachers [...] »
Teaching in Action
Sixth graders in Prince William County film their interpretations of the [...] »
A 4th-grade teacher shows strategies for encouraging and supporting student [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Transform film from a source of entertainment to a piece of historical [...] »
So you don't live near Gettysburg or the Alamo—can you still teach with [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »