Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
One institution, two very different perspectives. An expert contrasts [...] »
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
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Donald A. Ritchie, Historian of the U.S. Senate, asks how a political [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold guide TAH teachers through analyzing the differences [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
Teaching in Action
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Improve your historical analysis skills by learning about different types of [...] »
The National History Day’s guidelines for defining and locating [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »