When I was in high school, I had a teacher who used something other than boring old “Name: __________” at the top of his tests. He’d put things like, “Hello, my name is: _______” or “_____________ is going to ace this test.”
When I started teaching, I did the same thing. The kids really liked it, and any time it left room for creativity, they did some neat stuff. Over the years, I acquired a pretty long list of them. Whenever I created a new test or handout, I would open up the document with all of them in it, and pick one. Sometimes I asked students to write their own. There is nothing pedagogically brilliant about this. It just amused me.
Here’s the document.
What a terrific and imaginative idea! I love it. I just downloaded it off scribd, and I will be using these ideas from now on.
How can we expect our learners to show imagination if we don’t show some too! Thank you for sharing this.
Have fun with it. If you come up with any new ones , I’d love to hear them.
Here’s one:
______________, in the library, with the wrench.
I like it a lot. Thanks.
I used the pig-latin one today and one of my kids wrote his name in pig-latin.
FTW!
Iay avehay adhay idskay ooday ethay amsay ingthay. Oodgay unfay.
I’ll add a few to the list:
1. “My name is ___________. You killed my father, prepare to die.”
2. “My name is __________ and I like to doodle.” (Then I left them a box titled “doodle space” at the end of the test.)
3. Before vacation I do something like “My name is ______ and I’m going to be chilling in _____ for break. It’s going to be ___.”