Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Who was Jane Addams, and how is her article "Why Women Should Vote" still [...] »
What can an inventory tell you about daily life in Delaware in 1804? Curator [...] »
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »
Excite students by introducing them to primary sources that answer questions [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
The fictional Alphonse the Camel provides insight for one classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
See this Flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question sources [...] »
Virginia Tech’s short video shows how to analyze primary sources and put [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »