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I taught Band in two different systems. The first, like the one I grew up with, was full rehearsals outside of school hours and small group lessons during school where kids were pulled from class. Pretty easy learning names quickly that way.When I was teaching I would write all the kids’ names to learn them, seating charts... and I actually got them faster than most. But I am normally terrible with them, so co-workers were a big problem....
The other system was band "classes". Say, 4 Grade 7 classes of 25-30 kids meeting 4 out every 6 days (we had this insane 6 day "cycle" system instead of a Mon.-Fri. week). Much harder to learn names that way (you also had 4 Gr. 8 classes). That seems to be the most common Canadian way.