Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
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How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
Donald A. Ritchie, Historian of the U.S. Senate, asks how a political [...] »
What do the contents of pockets say about their owners? TAH teachers model [...] »
What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »
Teaching in Action
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
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.
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What questions should you ask when viewing maps as historical evidence?
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »