Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How do the buildings and artifacts at Mount Vernon reflect the lives of the [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
TAH teachers get an introduction to Monticello as Thomas Jefferson's ' [...] »
Teaching in Action
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical [...] »
Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Check out these sites for primary sources grouped into sets by topic, grade- [...] »
Quantitative data, although seemingly daunting and impersonal, can help you [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »