Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Professor Meredith Lair examines a 1971 political cartoon and what it says [...] »
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
Watch J. Douglas Smith discuss the Massive Resistance policy enacted by U.S [...] »
TAH teachers get an introduction to Monticello as Thomas Jefferson's ' [...] »
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts [...] »
Teaching in Action
Sixth graders in Prince William County film their interpretations of the [...] »
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Find the National Archive's worksheets for analyzing a variety of primary [...] »
Work with oral history interviews as historical evidence.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »