Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
One institution, two very different perspectives. An expert contrasts [...] »
How do the speeches of Sojourner Truth and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold guide TAH teachers through analyzing the differences [...] »
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article [...] »
Written primary sources only tell you so much. To learn about history that [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Explore the SOCC analysis technique with this great website.
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The Bracero Archive’s tutorial shows how to conduct successful interviews. [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »