Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article [...] »
Watch J. Douglas Smith discuss the Massive Resistance policy enacted by U.S [...] »
Tour Monticello with TAH teachers and learn about the history behind Thomas [...] »
Take a look at artifacts from the past—what might they be? Teachers model [...] »
How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its [...] »
Teaching in Action
Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
Introducing your students to primary sources for the first time? Watch [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Learn how to teach your students historical thinking with this informative [...] »
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
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 [...] »