OneAndOneIs2

Remember their names. It totally freaks them out.

If there's one thing that worries me about the idea of being a teacher, it's the mob of kids you have to be able to identify. Hundreds of the little sods. And they don't wear name badges, oh no...

So as part of this course, I've made it a personal goal to learn as many names as possible. This means the dozen people on my science course, and the 20-odd people in my generic group.

First day with both sets, I noted down the names and then spent the rest of the session memorizing them. It seemed to work. This morning we had to give our presentation and we were the only group to start off by getting the rest of the class involved.

Because I lead the intro, I was the one who asked the people with hands up for their input. By name.

I'm not sure how big an impact it had on THEM, but it worried my co-presenters a bit ;)

But it was at lunchtime that it was most amusing (for me). One of the blokes I was lunching with was trying to point out one of the other people sitting at another table. His attempts were of the "The one with her back to us. In the blue top."

Without thinking, I asked, "What, X? The one sitting opposite Y?" and there was this sudden silence, followed by "How the hell do you know all these names??"

It was actually pure luck: X is in my generic group, and Y was somebody I talked to on our first day and happened to know the name of. But they didn't know that. :o)

I'm no longer quite so worried about my ability to remember names. Or at least being able to bluff my way through it...