I have about 180 students per week going through my classes & am rather perplexed as to how I'm going to remember all of their names, the nicknames that is, not their Thai names. I am by nature not very good at remembering the names of people, yet I appreciate that it important to a student to be able to address him/her by name. Ideas/suggestions please?

I have about 180 students per week going through my classes & am rather perplexed as to how I'm going to remember all of their names, the nicknames that is, not their Thai names. I am by nature not very good at remembering the names of people, yet I appreciate that it important to a student to be able to address him/her by name. Ideas/suggestions please?

Hear you loud and clear.

I have about 160 almost every day at 3 grade levels.

I took a group photo of each class and wrote names under each face.

It is not easy but it is your best chance.

I have a teacher friend who has a program (OpenOffice) that allows him

to arrange each photo in the class seating position. Very cool and allows

him to know immediately each student name from where they sit as

it corresponds directly with his page of photos.

Good luck. Many teachers would not even try to learn more than 40.

Cheers

In big classes, I found that the Thai names were actually easier to remember than the nicknames since five students may be named "Nut", etc. In smaller classes like I have now, I use nicknames since they are short and can be easier to pronounce. The idea of creating a photo album is a good one and would be really useful during your class times.

I have about 180 students per week going through my classes & am rather perplexed as to how I'm going to remember all of their names, the nicknames that is, not their Thai names. I am by nature not very good at remembering the names of people, yet I appreciate that it important to a student to be able to address him/her by name. Ideas/suggestions please?

I drew seating layouts of my classes and wrote their nicknames for each position. Then I'd get them to sit in the same seats each class. I'd stick the layout plan at the bottom of a clipboard for easy reference during activities.

Then once a month I'd make an activity where they get to choose new seating positions depending how well they'd done in class , tests etc.

My kids were pretty tame and in small classes , might not work as well for large classes.

I used to have 600 students years ago in a big Pratom school - I didn't really try to remember their names. I only had them for 1 hour a week each. It wasn't important. Just say, "you".

When I had the same number at university, it was it was important to remember their names.

When the "dancing white monkey" in a kids school, forget it.

When the "dancing white monkey" in a kids school, forget it.

Many schools that teach kids are looking more for that than somebody actually trying to teach. Maybe "dancing white monkey" would be good for a resume'

If you want to teach high school kids, here's a short list of essential supplies :

large garbage bags

duct tape

shovel

a good imagination

I have about 160 almost every day at 3 grade levels.

I took a group photo of each class and wrote names under each face.

I have 180 at 3 levels in an EEP programme, M1, M2 & M3.

Like the group photo idea, will give it a go next week. Am sure the the kids will enjoy posing for it!

Edited May 18, 200620 yr by a269652

Have them right their niks on some scrap paper and then hang it from their desks.

Have them right their niks on some scrap paper and then hang it from their desks.

I reckon that would waste at least 5 minutes per lesson, as no doubt they'd forget to bring the same bit of paper each time. It's a challenge to squeeze all of the material I want to teach into a 1 hour 40 minute lesson as it is.

Edited May 19, 200620 yr by a269652

As stated, in classes of over 30 students, esp. if you see them less than 3 hours each week, nobody would expect you to know all their names. Thai teachers don't have to try, because each uniform has the student's name written in Thai.

A year ago, I had the same 31 kids for six hours per week, all year. I tried hard to learn all their first names and nicknames. Those few whom I couldn't memorize decided, correctly, that they weren't important enough to be memorable, and stopped doing good work.

For those huge classes, only learn the names who jump out at you. Like the front row kids whose arms jump up, and the bad boys in the back row who jump up and out of their seats at the wrong times.

You may have two Nuts or two Machimas, but you probably won't have more than that. Maybe two Lek's. But who can forget Poon Poon, Pong Pang, Popcorn, Pook, Poom, Pom, and Pam; Boom, Beam, Note, Care, Net, Boy, and Beer? (all of them M1 boys)? That's far easier than remember Nataphon, Natapat, Summitra, Pachara, and Pawana.

I have about 180 students per week going through my classes & am rather perplexed as to how I'm going to remember all of their names, the nicknames that is, not their Thai names. I am by nature not very good at remembering the names of people, yet I appreciate that it important to a student to be able to address him/her by name. Ideas/suggestions please?

I drew seating layouts of my classes and wrote their nicknames for each position. Then I'd get them to sit in the same seats each class. I'd stick the layout plan at the bottom of a clipboard for easy reference during activities.

Then once a month I'd make an activity where they get to choose new seating positions depending how well they'd done in class , tests etc.

My kids were pretty tame and in small classes , might not work as well for large classes.

We have the same idea. I am using a seat plan for me to remember them and their names on their designated seats. Its actually helpful.