Do you think it would be difficult to teach a classroom-full of younger kids when you don't know their names?

@Val123 Wow, sounded like a hell of a day.

Tape is a great idea!

LOL fun and cute AND frustrating!
I was once a pre school teacher and won’t be able to memorize their names right away.
Nametags, nametags. :D

@Narl I am so tired I can’t see straight! On top of that I didn’t get one single break all day! I’m sure people have the impression that preschoolers must be the easiest of all ages to teach…..O contraire! By far THE most difficult!

@liliesndaisies I guess what floors me is I don’t think many of the teachers even think about how difficult it would be! Especially for a full time sub who goes through 100 kids a week!

Speaking of funny….The kids were at “free time,” playing in various stations. One kid yells, “The cops are coming!!!” and runs to the play phone, dials something and says, “Police?! Yes! The cops are coming! Get here as soon as you can!” LOL! (And I’m trying to say “Hey…um…hey! Hey!!! You!! Hey!.....Don’t run!” Never did hear me! Next time I’m going to put name tags on all four sides of their little pre-school bodies.)

I taught post grad, with up to 180 in a class, I didn’t even try for names….

@DrBill That’s a completely different animal! You’re not going to need to be hollering across the room at post grad student to quit climbing on their desks and flicking boogers on each other!

@Val123

You make a very good point.

@Val123 That’s why I’m a high school teacher. I think the older the students, the easier it is!

What sort of names did these children have if they couldn’t even pronounce them??

That sure sounded like a chaotic assignment. I’d get flustered pretty fast in such a situation.
Congratulations on making it through the day!

Right now i am teaching college students but i miss the little toddlers back in the pink and blue painted classroom. :D

@casheroo It’s not that they couldn’t pronounce them. They could pronounce them it their own way. It’s just hard to understand what really little kids are saying sometimes. They might pronounce “Mary Ann” as “Mawy Am,” and not even pronounce that very clearly. Several of the kids had some developmental issues, too.

But, speaking of, a few of them did have some pretty unfamiliar names. I can’t even remember. I meant to write them down. Oh, I remember “Caydence,” which is actually quite pretty, but I’d never heard it before, as a name. If she’d told me her name, with her little-kid pronunciations, I probably would have struggled to fit it to something I’m familiar with, like, “Candice,” or something. It would probably take two or three tries, with two or three other little kids chiming in to help me!

Oh…and then there was “Alejandro” (Pronouced “Ale Hondrow.” But he was completely non-verbal. Those two aren’t off the wall names, but I can’t even remember the two or three that were. One kid was “Con’....” something. “Con” and then an apostrophe dividing the first part of his name from the last.

@Dr_Lawrence I sub full time. It’s all in a days work! I remember doing my student teaching, in a 4th grade classroom. About two months into it, the teacher said she was going to turn the room over to me for a few hours. All by myself! I was tickled pink! From watching her work, it was going to be a piece of cake, I just knew it!
She left….and I completely lost the class within 15 seconds! I was in a total panic! Teaching is a skill like no other.

@Narl This is true….HS IS easier, but man, when you get a bad attitude among one of those huge kids, it’s awful. A couple of years ago I had a girl tell me to “F-off B%%%” and storm out of the classroom! Say WHAT???? I came unglued!! THAT was a trickle down effect from an ineffective principal, though. The kids had been telling me that he never did anything, he was just biding his time till he could retire. I stormed the office after she did that, and the principal’s only response was, “Now, now, Sandy. That’s no way to behave.” She knew he wouldn’t do anything.

@liliesndaisies Can I sub for you? PLEASE??!!

@Val123 You’re absolutely correct. If you don’t have the administration to back you up and discipline the students, you have NO control over the students.

lol by all means you may! :))