Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »
How do the speeches of Sojourner Truth and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper [...] »
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
With the advent of industry and western expansion, U.S. businesses mass [...] »
TAH teachers get an introduction to Monticello as Thomas Jefferson's ' [...] »
Teaching in Action
Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
Watch this 9th-grade teacher lead his class in planning, writing, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Don't overlook song as a way of understanding the past.
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So you don't live near Gettysburg or the Alamo—can you still teach with [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »