Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold guide TAH teachers through analyzing the differences [...] »
Watch this flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
Teaching in Action
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Watch this 9th-grade teacher lead his class in planning, writing, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Discover historic landscapes with this guide to reading the land produced by [...] »
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »