Do you have trouble remembering all of your new pupils' names at the beginning of each school year? Here are seven handy ideas that you can try out when faced with a whole new group of names to memorize.

Concepts

getting to know you, back to school

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Additional Tags

classroom support

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Instructional Ideas

• Share this with your fellow teachers
• Adapt an idea or two for student use so that they can also get to know each other's names

Classroom Considerations

• One of the recommendations is to find a unique characteristic of a student to help you remember their name. This could be hurtful to the student if said aloud (even accidently), so be careful if using this technique. 

Pros

• Clearly lists seven manageable tips, some of which are very practical and some of which are fun (and even a bit silly)

Cons

• None