Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
TAH teachers get an introduction to Monticello as Thomas Jefferson's ' [...] »
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »
This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing [...] »
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Bill Kendrat demonstrates the techniques he uses to draw students in [...] »
Eighth-grade teacher Amy Trenkle keeps students on-task before, during, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Check out these sites for primary sources grouped into sets by topic, grade- [...] »
Don't overlook song as a way of understanding the past.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »