Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Watch J. Douglas Smith discuss the Massive Resistance policy enacted by U.S [...] »
Teaching the Reconstruction? Ford's Theatre's Sarah Jencks leads teachers [...] »
Jefferson, surprised by the Louisiana Purchase? Maybe not. Historian Leah [...] »
Chandra Manning discusses the song “John Brown's Body,” and how music can be [...] »
How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Bill Kendrat demonstrates the techniques he uses to draw students in [...] »
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Quantitative data, although seemingly daunting and impersonal, can help you [...] »
Learn how to teach your students historical thinking with this informative [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »