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While doing the Teaching Assistantship (TA) duties, I always advertised my name.
While doing the Teaching Assistantship (TA) duties, I always advertised my name.
"My Name is this and you can Google me!" and I wrote them with big letters on the corner of the board. Corner because it will stay till the end of the class, just in case. And I always encouraged them to call me by name... instead of "excuse me!".
I also gave them semester specific Email address such as "Email+Fall2020@gmail.com". That way I could filter the Emails according to the semesters/courses.
I also gave them semester specific Email address such as "Email+Fall2020@gmail.com". That way I could filter the Emails according to the semesters/courses.
I always try to relate the name of the students with their faces. Sometimes I mis-pronounce the names of the students. It is a weird situation, you can read it from their face, but I would tell them immediately that "If I mis-pronounced your name once, I allow you to mis-pronounce my name three times". They seemed happy with that deal.
Moreover, Knowing each other by name is good for future networking too. They grow up fast and become your friend.
Moreover, Knowing each other by name is good for future networking too. They grow up fast and become your friend.
Selling your name, even the first few letters of your name, is better than the situations when students looking for you asks others with your description such as the TA with the weird cap, sandle, or may be BIG nose etc.
Have you ever mis-pronounced names? Any interesting stories that you faced with names?
