Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
TAH teachers get an introduction to Monticello as Thomas Jefferson's ' [...] »
What connections do documents related to the Jackie Robinson Testimonial [...] »
What do slave receipts reveal? Ever considered using similar documents to [...] »
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
If students lack historical context, they can miss the substance of a [...] »
Teaching in Action
Discover the multiple strategies 5th-grade teacher Jennifer Brouhard uses in [...] »
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Using Primary Sources
In this series of exercises, students are presented with Native American [...] »
Analyze art in the classroom with these resources from the Picturing [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »