1. Techniques for Learning Students’ Names
Here are a number of techniques frequently used by educators to learn their students’ names. Please
put a check by the THREE techniques that you would find most useful to you when learning your
students’ names each semester.
1. _______ I have my students write their names on a name tent, name badge, name
place card that is placed on the front of their desks.
2. _______I have my students tell me their names and then repeat it back to them.
3. _______I create a seating chart for my students and have them adhere to it until I
learned their names.
4. _______I type my students’ names over and over until I remembered them.
5. _______I have students introduce one another to the whole class.
6. _______I have them complete index cards with personal information on the card.
7. _______I look at their photos on ELC, Blackboard or some other photo displaying
technology.
8. _______I say their names each time I call on them.
9. _______I create a class slide show of their photos and their names through PowerPoint.
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2. Now look at your responses. If at least two of your responses were numbers: 1, 7, or 9, you personally
tend to use visual cues to enable you to learn your students’ names.
If at least two of your responses were numbers: 2, 5, and 8, you personally tend to use auditory
techniques to enable you to learn your students’ names.
If at least two of your responses were numbers: 3, 4 and 6, you personally tend to use tactile
techniques to assist you in learning your students’ names.
Visual techniques: 1, 7, 9
Auditory techniques: 2, 5, 8
Tactile techniques: 3, 4, 6
If you checked any different combination of techniques you are demonstrating diversity in the
techniques that you utilize to learn your students’ names.
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