Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Donald A. Ritchie, Historian of the U.S. Senate, asks how a political [...] »
One institution, two very different perspectives. An expert contrasts [...] »
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »
How do the speeches of Sojourner Truth and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper [...] »
What does an 1853 daguerreotype have to say? Plenty, says Frank Goodyear, [...] »
Teaching in Action
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
Using Primary Sources
The National History Day’s guidelines for defining and locating [...] »
Textbook illustrations are often overlooked as historical evidence.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
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 [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »