Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Tour Monticello with TAH teachers and learn about the history behind Thomas [...] »
Chandra Manning discusses the song “John Brown's Body,” and how music can be [...] »
Close observation and an inquisitive mind are all the tools you need to [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold of the Smithsonian American Art Museum guide teachers [...] »
![Photo, [Old hermit Roy Ozmer. . . ], 1957, Flickr Commons](/sites/default/files/styles/splash_thumb_images/public/Reading-and-Thinking.jpg?itok=f7GCc3Xk "Photo, [Old hermit Roy Ozmer reading a book at his house : Pelican Key, Florida], December 1957, State Library and Archives of Florida, Flickr Commons")
Watch this flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question [...] »
Teaching in Action
Eighth-grade teacher Amy Trenkle keeps students on-task before, during, and [...] »
Watch this 9th-grade teacher lead his class in planning, writing, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Transform film from a source of entertainment to a piece of historical [...] »
Looking for new ideas on how to teach with the historic places in your [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »