Knowing students' names helps to develop a personal relationship between you and your students. It also helps with early targeting and early intervention by accurately identifying troublemakers. Make routine classroom procedures as smooth as possible. Teach your students procedures that you use for taking attendance, tardiness, leaving the room, bulletin boards, grades, make-up work, etc., as if they were curriculum. Student disruption and dissatisfaction can result from student anxiety and uncertainty about how to do things in the classroom.
Procedures change from class to class, based on teacher style.
Students should know how to function in each class. It is difficult to identify those students affected by ADD and those who are not. Issues of fairness or legal problems can arise with the teacher caught in the middle. Your school should already be supplying training and policy information about this, especially in view of current increases in mainstreaming and inclusion. If not, contact your local union representatives and ask them to work with the administration to make this kind of training available.