Name Cards

5 x 8 Name Cards

The Master Teacher Seminar, hosted annually by Southside Virginia Community College's Terry Whisnant, offers many ways to increase the interactivity of courses. One, suggested by Sandra Spain of Thomas Nelson Community College at the 1999 VCCA concurrent session about the Master Teacher Seminar is to put each student's name on a 5" x 8" card, which students pick up from the front/teacher's desk as they enter class and place on their own.

Benefits: This simple expedient, notes Sandy, helps her learn students' names, as well as helping students to learn each other's names. Those cards that are not picked up indicate absentees, so she just gathers those into her roll book to do the clerical work after class. Students turn in their name cards at the end of class so that they'll be available for the next class session even if the students are absent.

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