Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
In the struggle for women's suffrage, how did African American women [...] »
Two letters from 1800 Tripoli lead into a story of piracy, privateering, [...] »
A student demonstrates thinking aloud reading two documents.
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Chandra Manning discusses the song “John Brown's Body,” and how music can be [...] »
What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 4th-grade teacher shows strategies for encouraging and supporting student [...] »
Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Work with early twentieth-century film as historical evidence. What [...] »
Analyze art in the classroom with these resources from the Picturing [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »