Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What do slave receipts reveal? Ever considered using similar documents to [...] »
Tour Monticello with TAH teachers and learn about the history behind Thomas [...] »
What can an inventory tell you about daily life in Delaware in 1804? Curator [...] »
What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »
Professor Meredith Lair examines a 1971 political cartoon and what it says [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Bill Kendrat demonstrates the techniques he uses to draw students in [...] »
Discover the multiple strategies 5th-grade teacher Jennifer Brouhard uses in [...] »
Using Primary Sources
See this Flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question sources [...] »
Advertisements have surrounded us for years. How can you interpret them? [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
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 [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »