Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Is reading a piece of historic literature once enough? Not if you want to [...] »
How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
Watch this flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question [...] »
How does the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in Washington, DC, depict Grant and [...] »
Teaching in Action
Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Source and approach letters and diaries with historical thinking.
[...] »Work with oral history interviews as historical evidence.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »