Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Chandra Manning discusses the song “John Brown's Body,” and how music can be [...] »
Historian Allida Black analyzes FDR's April 28, 1935 Fireside Chat. What [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold guide TAH teachers through analyzing the differences [...] »
Two letters from 1800 Tripoli lead into a story of piracy, privateering, [...] »
Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Bill Kendrat demonstrates the techniques he uses to draw students in [...] »
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Integrate these two guides into your curriculum to help students develop [...] »
Check out these sites for excellent primary source material.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »