Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Analyzing a massive primary source? Divide it up! Teachers at the [...] »
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
What does an 1853 daguerreotype have to say? Plenty, says Frank Goodyear, [...] »
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
Watch Briana Zavadil White introduce teachers to portraits of inventors and [...] »
Teaching in Action
Trying to promote more productive and engaging discussions?
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An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Work with oral history interviews as historical evidence.
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National History Day identifies secondary sources along with [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
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 [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »