Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Excite students by introducing them to primary sources that answer questions [...] »
On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a [...] »
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts [...] »
Teaching in Action
Eighth-grade teacher Amy Trenkle keeps students on-task before, during, and [...] »
The fictional Alphonse the Camel provides insight for one classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Quantitative data, although seemingly daunting and impersonal, can help you [...] »
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »