Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
Excite students by introducing them to primary sources that answer questions [...] »
What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social [...] »
Teaching in Action
Eighth-grade teacher Amy Trenkle keeps students on-task before, during, and [...] »
Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical [...] »
Quantitative data, although seemingly daunting and impersonal, can help you [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »