Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What can a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 reveal? Donald A. [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold guide TAH teachers through analyzing the differences [...] »
Letters from U.S. soldiers during the Philippine-American War reveal [...] »
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
How do the speeches of Sojourner Truth and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper [...] »
Teaching in Action
The fictional Alphonse the Camel provides insight for one classroom.
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How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Looking for new ideas on how to teach with the historic places in your [...] »
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[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »