The more experience I have in the classroom, the more important learning student names becomes. Unfortunately, learning names has never come easily for me, and years of accumulated names seem only to have increased the challenge of adding new names.
As a result, the new BYU Center for Learning caught my attention with an email touting their inaugural Tip of the Month: Learning Students' Names. Check out the name memorization games, which seem a bit hokey and class-time consuming for law school, but would probably work.
In lieu of games, this semester I am using a strategy that combines (1) studying the online class roll, (2) calling on all of the students in the class during the first two weeks, and (3) having lunch or hiking the Y with all of the students. I am just about there.
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1. Posted by tRJ on September 5, 2007 @ 12:20 | Permalink
Hey! Your Badgers never got to go hiking!
Of course, you knew my name. Dag.
2. Posted by Gordon Smith on September 5, 2007 @ 15:25 | Permalink
Madison doesn't have any mountains, Zack! I suppose we could have had a stroll along Lake Mendota, but that didn't occur to me at the time.
3. Posted by Jake on September 5, 2007 @ 19:05 | Permalink
Gordon, why don't you just have someone prepare a diagram of the classroom as viewed from your lectern, tell the students the first day of class that they need to pick the seat they want to live in for the semester, then pass the seating chart around and have the students write their names on the seats they have chosen? Almost all of my law profs did this. It worked pretty well.
4. Posted by tRJ on September 5, 2007 @ 19:53 | Permalink
Ah, I am detecting a pro-Provo (pro-vo?) bias here. I knew it!
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