Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
With the advent of industry and western expansion, U.S. businesses mass [...] »
A student demonstrates thinking aloud reading two documents.
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Analyzing a massive primary source? Divide it up! Teachers at the [...] »
Teaching in Action
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical [...] »
Using Primary Sources
In this series of exercises, students are presented with Native American [...] »
This website by the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery will help students [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
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 [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »