Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts [...] »
Educators tour the NMAAHC exhibit "Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: [...] »
What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
Is reading a piece of historic literature once enough? Not if you want to [...] »
Teaching in Action
Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Source and approach letters and diaries with historical thinking.
[...] »Every town has a scattering of historical markers and statues. Discover what [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »