Current efforts under the direction of the Teaching Division include:

• A special joint membership package with the Organization of History Teachers and the Society for History Education
• The Beveridge Family Teaching Prize (K-12)
• Affiliation with the National Council for the Social Studies, http://www.ncss.org. This link highlights the common interests of the AHA and NCSS. We are developing new initiatives, so check back often.
• Sessions on teaching and a luncheon for advanced placement history teachers at our annual meeting and a special invitation and registration category for K-12 teachers
• Teaching columns in Perspectives on History
• An Option Worth Pursuing: Teaching Opportunities for History Graduate Students in the Secondary Schools, By Ron Briley
• Are You Thinking of a Career in Secondary Schools? A Supervisor's Perspective on Which Candidate to Hire By John Pyne
• Participation in the development of the framework for the 1994 National Assessment of Educational Progress and of national history standards
• Guidelines for the preparation, evaluation, and selection of history textbooks
• Criteria for standards in history/social studies/social sciences
  
• Bridging World History
• Diversity Pamphlet Series
• Why Study History? Essays by Peter N. Stearns and William McNeill
• Why Become a Historian?, A series of essays by Rodolfo Acuna, David Brody, Gordon Chang, Spencer Crew, Natalie Davis, Robert Guiterrez, Nadine Hata, Thomas Holt, Patricia Reid, James Riding In, and Isabel Tirado
• Benchmarks for Professional Development in Teaching of History as a Discipline -This document sets out benchmarks for guiding and shaping collaborative programs aimed at professional development of teachers of history. It was produced by a small group (of K-12 teachers, faculty from history departments and schools of education, and public historians), which had been constituted by the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the National Council for the Social Studies.
• AHA Advice for Faculty Undergoing National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) evaluation
• Working Together to Strengthen History Teaching in Secondary Schools, By Kathleen Anderson Steeves
• Teaching the Introductory Survey: Insights from the College Board's AP® Survey By Robert B. Townsend

Training Teachers to Teach

• The Next Generation of History Teachers by Edward L. Ayers
• Training Teachers to Teach History in K-12 Schools
• In June 2007, the AHA Council approved the Teacher Qualifications Position Statement of the National Council for History

Teaching Standards & Guidelines

• Advice to History Departments on NCATE Review of Teacher Preparation Programs
• Benchmarks for Professional Development in Teaching of History as a Discipline
• Guidelines for the Preparation, Evaluation, and Selection of History Textbooks
• Criteria for Standards in History/Social Studies/Social Sciences
• Liberal Learning and the History Major
• Statement on Diversity in History Teaching (May 1991)
• Rethinking the History MA:The Community College Case by Lawrence Baron (September 2008)
• Rethinking Graduate Education in History by Jonathan Rose (February 2009)