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Feb 20, 2025 48 min

How to Learn Students’ Names, with Michelle Miller

from Teaching in Higher Ed Hosted by Bonni Stachowiak with Michelle Miller

Michelle Miller shares about her book, A Teacher’s Guide to Learning Student Names: Why You Should, Why It’s Hard, How You Can, on episode 558 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode I think a lot of us kinda simmer in this little mindset of, everybody else can do this and I can’t. -Michelle Miller We’ve all heard the old saying it’s the sweetest sound that anybody ever hears their own name. It elevates the conversation differently to be able to use names. -Michelle Miller The test isn’t on how well you can recognize the name. The test is on how well you can say the names. That’s what you need need to practice doing. -Michelle Miller [/divwrap][divwrap class=”one-half”] Resources A Teacher’s Guide to Learning Student Names: Why You Should, Why It’s Hard, How You Can, by Michelle D. Miller Michelle Miller’s R3 Newsletter The Power of Writing Rituals, by James Lang National Institute of Aging What is a junk journal? Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do – Playlist of Michael Sandel Videos Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto, by Kevin Gannon Audio book: A Teacher’s Guide to Learning Student Names: Why You Should, Why It’s Hard, How You Can, by Michelle Miller Audio book: Hope in the Dark, by Rebecca Solnit Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology: Teaching, Learning, and the Science of Memory in a Wired World, by Michelle Miller newsreel.co Facades The Goat Rodeo Sessions [/divwrap]

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