Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What do the contents of pockets say about their owners? TAH teachers model [...] »
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
A student demonstrates thinking aloud reading two documents.
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Close observation and an inquisitive mind are all the tools you need to [...] »
What meanings does the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC, have? [...] »
Teaching in Action
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Trying to promote more productive and engaging discussions?
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Use this guide developed by PBS and the Antiques Roadshow to teach [...] »
Incorporate art into lesson plans with this resource from The Metropolitan [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »