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[lydilia]

I don’t think I’m going to learn the names of every one of my students. I’ll be teaching a couple hundred of them, and with the uniforms and fashion conformity obliterating any sort of distinctive style I can only really remember the students I’ve interacted with significantly. It doesn’t help that so many of them have similar names. In one class

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[iideliishii]

Um, yeah. Memorizing students' names = SO SO difficult. After two years, I STILL didn't know the names of a huge percentage of my 800 or so students. Faces I remembered pretty well, names were another story entirely. I'm just like that, though, generally -- I'm MUCH MUCH better with faces than with names (Unsurprisingly, I test as more of a visual learner than an auditory one, and I'm better with the written word than the spoken word. Hmmmm, shows you where my strengths lie.) One suggestion: learn to read as many name kanji as you can. Personal name kanji totally suck, but it DOES help if you can read the first names of at least a few students in each class. The name tags are an EXCELLENT cheat sheet if you can utilize them. Family names are easier to read, too, so you CAN use those, too, if you can't read the first name. Also, CLING to the names that don't escape from your head two seconds after learning them, and use them whenever possible.

"Emo sports girls"...hahahahahahahahahaha. Rain is death, man.