I went to a training offered by my work which taught us how to manage difficult behavior in children and then I went to a workshop which dealt with using the app Toontastic. I learned in the first workshop that students need to be given clear directions and they should be offered multiple options when they are having negative behavior. I can apply this to being a teacher when students are misbehaving. I can look back on this information and know the four different ways to help students and redirect the behavior to make it more positive. At the Toontastic workshop, I learned about a new app that helps students to be able to learn through making cartoons. There are many different ways that teachers would be able to have students use the app in an educational way. Teachers could use it to have students practice literacy skills in writing a story and then making an animation to go with the story they produce. Teachers could have students do things with math on the app where they draw everything themselves instead of using one of the pre-made designs. The teachers could have students draw a math problem, and then illustrate and talk through the video with audio recordings. This would help students who are maybe struggling with math to be able to take through their processes so as a teacher, you can help them figure out where they may be messing up. I would hope to be able to incorporate this app into my future classroom to be able to teach things like math and science.
