IF YOU WANT TO:
Arriving at class ten minutes early each day and talking informally with students sitting in different sections of the room.
"I try to target a different section each day," a history professor says, "talking with students about the course or more general topics, getting to know their names and something about them as individuals. It helps me to remember a name if I can connect it with a place, an interest, a personality trait. An easy example would be Miss Baker from Bakersfield."
This teacher, like many others, believes that addressing students by name helps to break the excessive formality of a large lecture class and creates a more positive classroom environment.
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