Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner visits the original Franklin D. [...] »
What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold guide TAH teachers through analyzing the differences [...] »
Who was Jane Addams, and how is her article "Why Women Should Vote" still [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Bill Kendrat demonstrates the techniques he uses to draw students in [...] »
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Work with early twentieth-century film as historical evidence. What [...] »
Find the National Archive's worksheets for analyzing a variety of primary [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »