Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article [...] »
Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
One institution, two very different perspectives. An expert contrasts [...] »
Teaching in Action
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Using Primary Sources
In this series of exercises, students are presented with Native American [...] »
Source and approach letters and diaries with historical thinking.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »