Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Watch Suzannah Niepold guide TAH teachers through analyzing the differences [...] »
What can an inventory tell you about daily life in Delaware in 1804? Curator [...] »
Written primary sources only tell you so much. To learn about history that [...] »
Donald A. Ritchie, Historian of the U.S. Senate, asks how a political [...] »
Watch Briana Zavadil White introduce teachers to portraits of inventors and [...] »
Teaching in Action
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Explore the SOCC analysis technique with this great website.
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Analyze art in the classroom with these resources from the Picturing [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
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 [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »