Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »
How do the speeches of Sojourner Truth and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper [...] »
Watch Briana Zavadil White introduce teachers to portraits of inventors and [...] »
Teaching the Reconstruction? Ford's Theatre's Sarah Jencks leads teachers [...] »
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Looking for new ideas on how to teach with the historic places in your [...] »
Work with early twentieth-century film as historical evidence. What [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »