Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
Analyzing a massive primary source? Divide it up! Teachers at the [...] »
In the struggle for women's suffrage, how did African American women [...] »
Tour Monticello with TAH teachers and learn about the history behind Thomas [...] »
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 3rd-grade teacher leads her students through analysis of child labor [...] »
Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Improve your historical analysis skills by learning about different types of [...] »
These worksheets from the Library of Congress help students analyze primary [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »