Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Excite students by introducing them to primary sources that answer questions [...] »
Is reading a piece of historic literature once enough? Not if you want to [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner visits the original Franklin D. [...] »
What do the contents of pockets say about their owners? TAH teachers model [...] »
Chandra Manning discusses the song “John Brown's Body,” and how music can be [...] »
Teaching in Action
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
Watch this 9th-grade teacher lead his class in planning, writing, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
In this series of exercises, students are presented with Native American [...] »
Work with early twentieth-century film as historical evidence. What [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »