Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article [...] »
This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing [...] »
What connections do documents related to the Jackie Robinson Testimonial [...] »
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
Teaching in Action
Watch this 9th-grade teacher lead his class in planning, writing, and [...] »
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical [...] »
When visiting historical sites, sometimes you need a visual/emotional "hook [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »