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David Cooper

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East Petersburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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Thank you for visiting me at Teachers Pay Teachers! My resources draw upon thirty years of teaching middle school Social Studies and a long-time love for writing. I work hard to provide practical, creative, and thoughtful resources for history, civics, geography, writing across the content areas, social-emotional learning, and so much more. I earned a Masters of Teaching and Curriculum from Penn State and a BA of Secondary Education Social Studies from York College of PA. In addition to teaching Social Studies for 30 years, I served as a martial arts instructor for 29 and have written compulsively since my second-grade teacher read my Star Trek story to the class.
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Preview of Resources For Mentoring Student Teachers and Teaching Interns

Resources For Mentoring Student Teachers and Teaching Interns

Created by
David Cooper
Mentors provide guidance, feedback, and safety nets during the student teaching experience. This ebook presents tools in pdf and modifiable Word formats for mentors and student teachers to facilitate meaningful communication, record ideas and reflections quickly, and for student teachers to organize resources they will rely upon when managing classrooms of their own. Practical FAQ lists provide a framework for creating and managing a comprehensive student teaching experience and explain how to u
Preview of Academic Intervention— Getting Back on Track

Academic Intervention— Getting Back on Track

Created by
David Cooper
All students get derailed at some point in their school careers. Derailments can become important life lessons and opportunities to strengthen executive functioning skills if students receive guidance, support, and hope. Academic Intervention—Getting Back on Track is a positively-framed resource to help students in grades four through nine improve grades, regain self-confidence, and realize everyone experiences challenging times. Prompts and recommendations provide teachers and staff with tools
Preview of Behavior Management Tools: Goals, Monitoring, Reflection, & Conflict Resolution

Behavior Management Tools: Goals, Monitoring, Reflection, & Conflict Resolution

Created by
David Cooper
Helping students learn to manage their behaviors and to resolve conflict constructively can be challenging. These directions for setting clear and measurable behavior goals and three ready-to-use tools can help. The "Behavior Progress Monitoring Form" enables teachers to collect detailed data consistently with little attention diverted from instruction, and the "Behavior Progress Reflection Form" is a self-evaluation tool for encouraging the development of behavioral awareness and compensatory
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About the store

Experience

Thank you for visiting me at Teachers Pay Teachers! My resources draw upon thirty years of teaching middle school Social Studies and a long-time love for writing. I work hard to provide practical, creative, and thoughtful resources for history, civics, geography, writing across the content areas, social-emotional learning, and so much more. I earned a Masters of Teaching and Curriculum from Penn State and a BA of Secondary Education Social Studies from York College of PA. In addition to teaching Social Studies for 30 years, I served as a martial arts instructor for 29 and have written compulsively since my second-grade teacher read my Star Trek story to the class.

Teaching style

Challenging students with new ways to examine history, to express ideas and discoveries through multiple media, and to value learning beyond letter grades is an approach to teaching I have clung to and continue to develop with the help of colleagues, and, most importantly, my students.

Awards & shining teacher moments

Dave received the first place award for Literary Short Fiction at the 2012 Philadelphia Writers' Conference. He received the Outstanding Graduate Student In Teaching and Curriculum Award from the School of Behavioral Sciences and Education, Penn State Harrisburg in 2001. He also received Departmental Recognition For Contributions To The Field Of Education from York College of Pennsylvania in 1995.

My own education history

Dave graduated from York College Of Pennsylvania in 1995 with a degree in Secondary Education-- Social Studies. He completed his Master's Degree in Teaching and Curriculum through Penn State University in 2001.

Additional biographical information

Visit Dave’s website and blog at davidcooperwriting.com for more teaching resources and information about his writing projects.