Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis [...] »
Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold of the Smithsonian American Art Museum guide teachers [...] »
Analyzing a massive primary source? Divide it up! Teachers at the [...] »
Teaching the Reconstruction? Ford's Theatre's Sarah Jencks leads teachers [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 5th-grade teacher teaches historical context through roleplaying [...] »
Teacher Bill Kendrat demonstrates the techniques he uses to draw students in [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Learn how to teach your students historical thinking with this informative [...] »
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
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, [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »