This is one of my experience in teaching. when i was having class in Elementary School (SD), I am too busy to silence a crowded children, this is very different when I teach Junior High School students because most of them are sleeping in the class.
For students living in dormitories or students living in boarding schools. The phenomenon of students sleeping in class during school hours is not a strange phenomenon anymore, It is due to the density of their activities or their hours of sleep are very late.
Here are some tips that may be useful to address students who like to sleep in the classroom.
- Wake up slowly, and instruct students to perform wudhu or wash their faces.
Once you know a child is asleep, immediately stop learning for a moment. Wake him slowly Ask other students not to interfere. Because we also do not know what causes him to fall asleep. and instruct students to perform wudhu or wash their faces.
- Give Motivation or Inspirational Story Before Starting Lesson.
Some of the students still think learning is not a necessity or something important. This can be seen from the number of students who do not know the benefits of learning.
By providing an inspiring story that can motivate the child. is expected to induce the spirit of students to learn and prevent unwanted things, such as sleeping when learning, rowdy in class, or doing other things that are not desirable.
- Teach by Watching Their Learning Styles. a teacher must understand the character of a student's learning. because Each student has a tendency to learn different from different. There are students who easily understand the lessons through the media that he can see such as viewing videos or listening to teacher explanations, some through ear catching media such as radio and tape racorder, and some are better understanding of the lesson through movement movement.
- Provide counseling guidance.
Use your instincts as a teacher to feel what he really is. and Ask in person what is the cause of the sleeping brand. then Ask for a commitment from him not to repeat this incident again. While showing the consequences what he would receive if it continues to violate.
- Give Refreshing on the sidelines of the Lesson. students usually appear to be unfocused in receiving classroom lessons when they are 40 minutes. This can be seen from their faces and behaviors, such as feeling bored, moody, or even sleepy and then falling asleep.
To overcome this, a teacher or teacher should look as attractive as possible, for example by making small humor, or an interesting game game. thus, a student who begins to focus, re-concentrates and is ready to accept lesson back for receiving refreshment.
- Make an Interesting Evaluation. you can make it in the form of a writing test. but keep in mind, giving the test in the same way to the students makes them bored and even ever happened students fell asleep when the test took place. then make the test in other forms, such as in the form of intelligent meticulous, strategy game, or oral.