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 [...] »
How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its [...] »
Excite students by introducing them to primary sources that answer questions [...] »
A student demonstrates thinking aloud reading two documents.
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Watch Suzannah Niepold guide TAH teachers through analyzing the differences [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Learn how to teach your students historical thinking with this informative [...] »
Don't overlook song as a way of understanding the past.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »