Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
Educators tour the NMAAHC exhibit "Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: [...] »
How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and [...] »
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Don't overlook song as a way of understanding the past.
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Watch a scholar interpret letters from labor activist and reformer Sarah [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »