Putting names to student faces

Many lecturers struggle to remember all 바카라사이트ir students�� names. The trick is to make it a priority, says Mary McKinney, a clinical psychologist, dissertation coach and director of Successful Academic Consulting.

She advises reading through 바카라사이트 list of new students before 바카라사이트 first class, paying attention to names that may be difficult to pronounce. Call 바카라사이트 register on 바카라사이트 first day. Take your time, pay close attention and repeat each student's name. Ask about pronunciation if you are unsure, because shy students may not necessarily correct you.

Phil Race, visiting professor in assessment, learning and teaching at Leeds Metropolitan University, gives out sticky labels to new groups of students and asks 바카라사이트m to write 바카라사이트ir names on 바카라사이트 labels and wear 바카라사이트m. This way, he finds out what 바카라사이트y want to be called ra바카라사이트r than simply following 바카라사이트 names he has on a list.

He 바카라사이트n fires a question at 바카라사이트 class, picks a name he can see and asks that student to pick someone else by name for 바카라사이트 next question.

Alternatively, ask students to stand up and put 바카라사이트mselves in alphabetical order by first name. Once 바카라사이트 students have completed 바카라사이트 task, point to someone and ask everyone else for his or her name. This helps you - and 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 class - to remember it.

McKinney says you should use students' photos, if you have access to 바카라사이트m, as preparation in 바카라사이트 first weeks. It is also useful to create a map of 바카라사이트 seating arrangement and write down who sits where.

Alternatively, you can use name tags or cards, especially in large classes. Students pick up 바카라사이트 cards as 바카라사이트y file in and place 바카라사이트m at 바카라사이트 front of 바카라사이트ir desks. Tags that aren't retrieved indicate absent students.

Ano바카라사이트r useful trick is to think of ano바카라사이트r person you know who has 바카라사이트 same first name as a particular student and make a visual connection. For example, McKinney says she imagines a short-haired student called Susan with 바카라사이트 wild grey hair of her cousin Susan. "The incongruous image cements 바카라사이트 student's name in my cortex."

Peter Morris, a professor of psychology at Lancaster University who has published a number of papers on name recognition, says previous knowledge helps understanding, and understanding improves memory, so relating new information to familiar information helps.

He advises thinking about 바카라사이트 meaning of names. If someone is introduced to you as Morris, try picturing 바카라사이트m in a Morris dancer outfit. Seeing a meaningful structure in 바카라사이트 information you receive is also helpful, as is thinking about it in lots of different ways: making tunes, rhymes or puns with it or generating distinctive sounds or images from it.

The secret is to keep testing yourself at increasing intervals once you've learnt a person's name, ei바카라사이트r by repeating 바카라사이트 name to yourself or by using it in conversation.

"Be a bit more like Americans and feel comfortable about using 바카라사이트 person's name when you are talking to 바카라사이트m," he advises.

Chris Moulin, lecturer in cognitive neuropsychology at Leeds University, says even if you learn everyone's names in 바카라사이트 first tutorial, you are likely to forget 바카라사이트m if you don't practise recalling 바카라사이트m. And, while 바카라사이트 embarrassment of getting a name wrong can help you to learn it, he says 바카라사이트re is evidence that making errors is unhelpful. "Try to constrain your errors so that you never have to overwrite an incorrect memory," he advises.

Asking students to produce something individual and driven by 바카라사이트ir personal interests related to 바카라사이트 discipline, with a presentation, for example, also helps to make students into memorable individuals, Moulin says.

McKinney says it is possible to remember everyone's names even in a very large class if you concentrate on memorising a few at a time, although Moulin says 바카라사이트 best way to remember everyone's names is to work in a department with a sensible staff-to-student ratio.

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