Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Analyzing a massive primary source? Divide it up! Teachers at the [...] »
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »
In the struggle for women's suffrage, how did African American women [...] »
What is the key line in Franklin D. Roosevelt's second inaugural address? [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Quantitative data, although seemingly daunting and impersonal, can help you [...] »
Incorporate art into lesson plans with this resource from The Metropolitan [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »