Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Analyzing a massive primary source? Divide it up! Teachers at the [...] »
What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social [...] »
With the advent of industry and western expansion, U.S. businesses mass [...] »
Close observation and an inquisitive mind are all the tools you need to [...] »
How do the speeches of Sojourner Truth and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper [...] »
Teaching in Action
Discover the multiple strategies 5th-grade teacher Jennifer Brouhard uses in [...] »
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
Using Primary Sources
So you don't live near Gettysburg or the Alamo—can you still teach with [...] »
Work with oral history interviews as historical evidence.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »