Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its [...] »
What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »
If students lack historical context, they can miss the substance of a [...] »
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
What do slave receipts reveal? Ever considered using similar documents to [...] »
Teaching in Action
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Did two bullets begin WWI? Explore causation in your classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
National History Day identifies secondary sources along with [...] »
Don't overlook song as a way of understanding the past.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »