Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Close observation and an inquisitive mind are all the tools you need to [...] »
Who was Jane Addams, and how is her article "Why Women Should Vote" still [...] »
Analyzing a massive primary source? Divide it up! Teachers at the [...] »
Tour Monticello with TAH teachers and learn about the history behind Thomas [...] »
Jefferson, surprised by the Louisiana Purchase? Maybe not. Historian Leah [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Bill Kendrat demonstrates the techniques he uses to draw students in [...] »
Trying to promote more productive and engaging discussions?
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Teach students how to utilize primary sources with this game from [...] »
Watch a scholar interpret letters from labor activist and reformer Sarah [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »