Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How do the buildings and artifacts at Mount Vernon reflect the lives of the [...] »
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
Is reading a piece of historic literature once enough? Not if you want to [...] »
How do the speeches of Sojourner Truth and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper [...] »
TAH teachers get an introduction to Monticello as Thomas Jefferson's ' [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 4th-grade teacher shows strategies for encouraging and supporting student [...] »
Introducing your students to primary sources for the first time? Watch [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Quantitative data, although seemingly daunting and impersonal, can help you [...] »
Incorporate art into lesson plans with this resource from The Metropolitan [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »