What is classroom management?

Classroom management refers to the wide variety of skills and techniques that teachers use to keep
students organized, orderly, focused, attentive, on task, and academically productive during a class.

Learn your students’ names

It’s a common predicament for educators: Despite working closely with all kinds of
students, they can’t always easily retrieve names on demand—especially during the
first weeks of school, when faced with both new students and new responsibilities.
And biology does us no favors by storing visual information and names in separate
parts of the brain.

Suggestions for Remembering Names

1. Assign several short written assignments in the first week, and then practice
names (”Well done, Sasha”) as you personally return papers.

2. Take photos of students wearing name tags. Review the photos before class.
Attach student photos to interest inventories so that you can relate faces with
experiences and affinities.

3. Identify a unique physical feature and then think of a funny sentence involving
that feature and the student’s name: Tim has a tiny tooth.

4. Create rhymes to aid your auditory and visual memory: Fred eats monkey
bread.

5. Prioritize talking to a different group of five students every day for the first few
weeks of school. Use their names frequently during your conversation.

6. Greet students by name as they enter the classroom. Ask for help from
learners whose names you cannot recall.

7. When a student tells you their name, say it back to them and confirm that your
pronunciation is correct.
Seating arrangments

Teacher positions

Gestures and facial expressions

The teachers language

Learning names

Mixed-level classes

Giving instructions

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Finley, T. (2014, August 11). How to Remember Students' Names. Retrieved August 29, 2017,
from https://www.edutopia.org/blog/what-did-you-call-me-how-remember-students-names