Randy,
Good strategy and one that shows your students you are trying to learn their names as quickly as possible. This is an important step on your part and your students appreciate it.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
I, too, am terrrible with names. I am up front with the students regarding this mattter on Day One... on Day Two I make a seating chart (students pick their seats)... the chart really helps me lock in names by Day Four. A crutch for the elderly brain! PS: The chart does not preclude a student for changing seats anytime during the term.
Mark,
You students will increase their respect for you as you undertake this effort.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
Jeffrey,
You have turned a challenge into an interactive time with your students. You are learning their names while they get to kid with you about how you may have missed a name or called someone the wrong name. The students appreciate that you are trying to learn their names and that is what is important.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
Wow I could not agree with you more. I have a very hard time with the names. I think I do well with fooling the students with this handy cap of mine, sometimes it will take 3 or 4 days to learn them all. But I am up front with them and they see I am trying and it gives them a chance to laugh at the instructor which shows a bit of the human side of me.
