Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner visits the original Franklin D. [...] »
What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »
What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 4th-grade teacher shows strategies for encouraging and supporting student [...] »
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Integrate these two guides into your curriculum to help students develop [...] »
When visiting historical sites, sometimes you need a visual/emotional "hook [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »