Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Take a look at artifacts from the past—what might they be? Teachers model [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold guide TAH teachers through analyzing the differences [...] »
Chandra Manning discusses the song “John Brown's Body,” and how music can be [...] »
Written primary sources only tell you so much. To learn about history that [...] »
Donald A. Ritchie, Historian of the U.S. Senate, asks how a political [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school students use primary sources to question their textbook's [...] »
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[...] »Using Primary Sources
Source and approach letters and diaries with historical thinking.
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Integrate these two guides into your curriculum to help students develop [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »