Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
What can a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 reveal? Donald A. [...] »
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Bill Kendrat demonstrates the techniques he uses to draw students in [...] »
Trying to promote more productive and engaging discussions?
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Advertisements have surrounded us for years. How can you interpret them? [...] »
This source from Cornell University's Olin and Uris Libraries includes [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »