Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial [...] »
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article [...] »
TAH teachers get an introduction to Monticello as Thomas Jefferson's ' [...] »
Teaching in Action
Watch this 9th-grade teacher lead his class in planning, writing, and [...] »
The fictional Alphonse the Camel provides insight for one classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Watch a scholar interpret letters from labor activist and reformer Sarah [...] »
Work with oral history interviews as historical evidence.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »