Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What can a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 reveal? Donald A. [...] »
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts [...] »
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
What do slave receipts reveal? Ever considered using similar documents to [...] »
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
Discover historic landscapes with this guide to reading the land produced by [...] »
Transform film from a source of entertainment to a piece of historical [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
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 [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »