Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Tour Monticello with TAH teachers and learn about the history behind Thomas [...] »
Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »
What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social [...] »
Teaching the Reconstruction? Ford's Theatre's Sarah Jencks leads teachers [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold of the Smithsonian American Art Museum guide teachers [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and [...] »
Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Learn how to teach your students historical thinking with this informative [...] »
What questions should you ask when viewing maps as historical evidence?
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »