![]() ![]() Whether it is your child, your student, your best friend, a colleague or the young lady taking your order at Panera. Quit using the lame excuse, “I’m terrible with names.” But make it a priority to learn people’s names.īe intentional about calling them by their name. And when my Dad heard the word that I missed, he said, “Sharon, how did you miss that one…it is just Con. This is the word that kicked me out of the county-wide spelling bee in the 4th grade. This also explains why I will never, ever misspell the word: Conscience. It is kind of like going over a pencil line a few times to make it darker on a paper. ![]() When we get it wrong, and then work to correct it, we build better, strong memory pathways. Brain-based research and learning principles suggest that we learn more, learn better from our mistakes. Every week, I keep working on putting their names and faces to memory.īecause it is lame to say, “I’m terrible with names.” I don’t want to be lame. I never want to send the message that they are not important enough for me to know. I hate when I feel like I have to avoid calling someone by name so I don’t get it wrong. I have even thought about taking their pictures, holding their nametags, so I can study names/faces before class. I am close to making them wear nametags sometimes. □ Some of them I learn quickly, others take me weeks to match faces with names. But mostly it is so I can practice their names. I make us all play silly greeting games, under the guise that these are good teaching practices, which they are. I quiz myself as they come into the room. And I really, really struggle to learn their names and keep them straight from week to week.Ībsolutely crazy. I only see them for less than 3 hours a week. I am going out to day to buy a little box of stickers and a Sharpie marker.Įach fall, I teach a class on Tuesday nights with 18 graduate students. His name was just the beginning of getting to know him as a person and being able to really value his contributions and talents. And by knowing his name, I have learned other things about him and his life. I learned his name faster than anyone else’s. I imagine that he has a little box of stickers in his car with a Sharpie marker for just these occasions. I have never asked him why he does this or how long he has been doing this. My name is _” sticker on his shirt with his name written on it. Every time I see him, he is wearing a “Hello. There is a teacher that attends some meetings that I facilitate. We want to send the message of “You are important. Not important enough for me to try to put some effort into the remembering.Īnd I’m sure that is not the message we want to send. When we use the lame excuse, “I’m terrible with names.” We may imply that this person is not important enough for me to know. Really try to connect with that person and remember their name.īecause when we don’t even try. Whether it is your child, your student, your best friend, a colleague or the young man that is taking your order at Panera.Īnd all we have to do is actively listen and put their name to memory. I know many adults who could use some practice with this, too. This really isn’t just for young students. And then we simply say, “Can you please tell me your name again?” Then we say their name, shake their hand and listen to hear our name. And we listen to hear our name.Īnd I also teach them what to do if they don’t know this person’s name. We shake their hand and give them a high five or fist bump. When I am teaching young students, I remind them how to greet someone. Whenever I have the opportunity to teach a class, I start with a greeting. Hearing our names makes us feel important. Some we may never, ever see again.īut we all have this in common: We all love to hear our names. We meet a lot of people over the course of our lives. I have recently decided that I think it is pretty lame to say, “I’m terrible with names.” ![]()
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