Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
If students lack historical context, they can miss the substance of a [...] »
What can a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 reveal? Donald A. [...] »
Professor Meredith Lair examines a 1971 political cartoon and what it says [...] »
Teaching in Action
Discover the multiple strategies 5th-grade teacher Jennifer Brouhard uses in [...] »
Watch this 9th-grade teacher lead his class in planning, writing, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Source and approach letters and diaries with historical thinking.
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So you don't live near Gettysburg or the Alamo—can you still teach with [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »