Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »
What connections do documents related to the Jackie Robinson Testimonial [...] »
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »
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
So you don't live near Gettysburg or the Alamo—can you still teach with [...] »
Analyze art in the classroom with these resources from the Picturing [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »