Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Use autobiographies to deconstruct views of slavery and historical heroes. [...] »
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
One institution, two very different perspectives. An expert contrasts [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
With the advent of industry and western expansion, U.S. businesses mass [...] »
Teaching in Action
Watch this 9th-grade teacher lead his class in planning, writing, and [...] »
Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Don't overlook song as a way of understanding the past.
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Check out these sites for excellent primary source material.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
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 [...] »