Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Watch Suzannah Niepold guide TAH teachers through analyzing the differences [...] »
Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »
Tour Monticello with TAH teachers and learn about the history behind Thomas [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 3rd-grade teacher leads her students through analysis of child labor [...] »
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
Using Primary Sources
See this Flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question sources [...] »
Integrate these two guides into your curriculum to help students develop [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »