[nobe-l] question about learning student names

Wed Jul 21 12:41:08 UTC 2010

Hello Sally,

At the beginning of each semester I prepare braille index cards with 
each student's name, level of year, and major. I use the cards for 
attendance. I read out the name, and if the student is not there flip 
the card over and move to the next card. Later on in my office I use 
the flipped cards to enter in my computer the list of absences for 
that date. During attendance I take notice of students' seatings, and 
depending on the size of the class ask each student about activities 
over weekends other than partying, etc. I find these brief 
conversations quite helpful not only in getting to know names but 
also in breaking the ice, especially early in the semester. If it's a 
rather large class, say over 30, I limit my attendance to just once a 
week or keep it random. The whole process takes me four or five 
minutes, which is about how long it takes for students to settle down 
in any case.

Fikru

At 11:57 AM 7/20/2010, Sally Friedman wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>How do you guys learn the names of your students?
>
>The reason I'm asking is I just read something put out by my university (I'm
>a professor) listing the top 10 ways to learn student names, and more than
>half of their ideas centered around the need for eye contact or photos.
>
>Needless to say, it doesn't exactly make a blind person feel included, and I
>want to point that out to them..
>
>What I do (and I guess it's different for students of different grades) is
>ask people to repeat their names often (sometimes they do, sometimes they
>don't), take attendance and learn from both where they sit and their papers.
>Sometimes their voices will do it but in classes of 40 to 50, that can be
>tough. I also simply set a tone indicating that their input matters a lot.
>
>
>Any thoughts?
>Sally
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>Subject: [nobe-l] question about learning student names
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>
>Hello all,
>
>I have about a year before I begin my student teaching and this semester I
>am teaching several lessons.  With these lessons I am giving multiple choice
>tests and writing activities.  In the past someone has just graded the
>multiple choice items for me and then read the writing responses out loud.
>Do you guys know any other way to grade papers when they are hand written
>and not typed?  Is there any new type of technology out there that I am
>unaware of that will read handwriting?
>
>Thanks
>
>Faith Manion
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