Hi Mark! It's Fiona from the Canteen Youth Leadership Festival. Thanks again for all the wisdom you shared with us and also for posting these awesome videos! Strategy #5 resonated with me the most and is a nice reminder :)
These are great ideas!! Being an elementary school music teacher I teach every child in the school. A large group of names to remember. Although some of the same students return each year, there are always many new faces as well. Especially kindergarten. I will for sure be using your shirt trick with the little ones. My favourite way to remember names is to put fun alteration with it. When I meet then I try to find a distinguishing feature to add to their name to help me remember.
Excellent strategies, thank you for sharing. Associating a name with something is another fave way to remember names. For example, this week, I met a woman named Alexandra, and it was so easy to remember it because I associated her name with a "scrabble" type game we played in which participants added their name to a crossword pattern of names - and hers was the longest and most useful for everyone else to branch off. :-)
Awesome video Mark! Great production value!
Thanks mate, I'm so glad you are enjoying these latest vids :-) So, the questions begs - what is one of your favourite icebreaker questions?
Hi Mark! It's Fiona from the Canteen Youth Leadership Festival. Thanks again for all the wisdom you shared with us and also for posting these awesome videos! Strategy #5 resonated with me the most and is a nice reminder :)
You are so welcome Fiona, and thanks for commenting. Twas great to see you in Sydney :-0)
These are great ideas!! Being an elementary school music teacher I teach every child in the school. A large group of names to remember. Although some of the same students return each year, there are always many new faces as well. Especially kindergarten. I will for sure be using your shirt trick with the little ones. My favourite way to remember names is to put fun alteration with it. When I meet then I try to find a distinguishing feature to add to their name to help me remember.
Excellent strategies, thank you for sharing. Associating a name with something is another fave way to remember names. For example, this week, I met a woman named Alexandra, and it was so easy to remember it because I associated her name with a "scrabble" type game we played in which participants added their name to a crossword pattern of names - and hers was the longest and most useful for everyone else to branch off. :-)
If you watch children playing a ball game, they are often calling their friends by name if they want the ball passed to them.
Yes, that is absolutely right and is a great example of my last tip in this video. Thanks for sharing :-)