Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Watch Suzannah Niepold of the Smithsonian American Art Museum guide teachers [...] »
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
Written primary sources only tell you so much. To learn about history that [...] »
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
Letters from U.S. soldiers during the Philippine-American War reveal [...] »
Teaching in Action
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
Watch this 9th-grade teacher lead his class in planning, writing, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Improve your historical analysis skills by learning about different types of [...] »
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
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 [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »