Suppose you join a new club, or start a new job and meet a group of 15 to 20 new people all at once.
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I've always *thought* I had a problem remembering names, but really everyone seems to say this and I think my natural retention is about average. And my profession means I need to remember an unnatural number of names.
After much emotional agony I just started making flash cards. The only thing that kept me from doing this for so long was the feeling that it was "business bro" behavior. But, it was the best decision ever. Mostly because it makes me less flustered and stressed.
This is one thing I love about some support groups. It's customary to say your name not only at the introduction part of the meeting but also at the start of each time you share. This is super, super helpful.
I'd like to know where the expectation comes from that you're supposed to remember everyone's names after only one introduction. I don't know anybody who can do that.
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@futurebird @BenAveling I presume they mean if the kids have been in a previous class, can you ask the previous teachers if any of them have different pronunciations etc.
I get mixed results.
We have a place in our online system where students can record their own name and I need to twist the arm of the tech staff to have them all do this when they set up their machines in the fall.
Hearing the student say it is the best.
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When faced with so many new names do you do anything to help you remember?
@futurebird I practice "use it or lose it" when it comes to names. When someone tells me their name, I repeat it back to them. Then I try to use it in a sentence sometime in their presence. And again I say goodbye.
Repetition on its own works sometimes, but putting that repetition into a functional context seems to work better. (Same thing with facts in general: anki cards work okay, but actually using a fact — say, writing it into a story or deploying it in conversation — works better.)
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This is one thing I love about some support groups. It's customary to say your name not only at the introduction part of the meeting but also at the start of each time you share. This is super, super helpful.
I'd like to know where the expectation comes from that you're supposed to remember everyone's names after only one introduction. I don't know anybody who can do that.
I think I might ask students to do this during our first two classes as they also need to get to know each other.
Not a bad idea.
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I get mixed results.
We have a place in our online system where students can record their own name and I need to twist the arm of the tech staff to have them all do this when they set up their machines in the fall.
Hearing the student say it is the best.
Sadly I've had other teachers tell me the wrong way to say a name with great confidence ... which I kind of get, I might make the same mistake if the student hasn't clued me in that I'm doing it wrong.
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