Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Use autobiographies to deconstruct views of slavery and historical heroes. [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold of the Smithsonian American Art Museum guide teachers [...] »
Watch J. Douglas Smith discuss the Massive Resistance policy enacted by U.S [...] »
Teaching the Reconstruction? Ford's Theatre's Sarah Jencks leads teachers [...] »
On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 5th-grade teacher teaches historical context through roleplaying [...] »
Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
Using Primary Sources
These worksheets from the Library of Congress help students analyze primary [...] »
What messages are hidden in art and architecture? Explore the Library of [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
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 [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »