Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial [...] »
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article [...] »
What can a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 reveal? Donald A. [...] »
TAH teachers get an introduction to Monticello as Thomas Jefferson's ' [...] »
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
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
Virginia Tech’s short video shows how to analyze primary sources and put [...] »
Check out these sites for excellent primary source material.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »