Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
Teaching the Reconstruction? Ford's Theatre's Sarah Jencks leads teachers [...] »
What do slave receipts reveal? Ever considered using similar documents to [...] »
What do the contents of pockets say about their owners? TAH teachers model [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school students use primary sources to question their textbook's [...] »
Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
Using Primary Sources
This source from Cornell University's Olin and Uris Libraries includes [...] »
These worksheets from the Library of Congress help students analyze primary [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
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, [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »