Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
What can an inventory tell you about daily life in Delaware in 1804? Curator [...] »
Take a look at artifacts from the past—what might they be? Teachers model [...] »
Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »
Teaching in Action
The fictional Alphonse the Camel provides insight for one classroom.
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Trying to promote more productive and engaging discussions?
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Check out these sites for excellent primary source material.
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Don't overlook song as a way of understanding the past.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »