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[Fishead soup]

If you're in a Public school most classes have at least several sleepers.
This time of the year you'll get a lot of them because since the exams are over many students see the school term as over.

[Easter Clark]

After exams we just watch movies in class. I tell them they can either watch or sleep, but no talking.

During the semester, if someone is sleeping I'll make them stand at the back and stay after class to clean the floor, tables, etc.

I stole a phrase from one of my co-teachers that gets the students laughing (probably because of my poor pronunciation!): 잔이? = "Are you sleeping?"

[Dome Vans]

I don't get sleepers in my class now. At the beginning of the year when I started at my schools there would be a few catching a few winks. So on the occasion that it has happened I find when handing worksheets out that I'll just start piling stuff up on their head. The rest of the class seem to find it funny.

That sad we'll see what happens next week. Exams over and hot weather......

[Yu_Bum_suk]

After exams my policy's similar to Easter Clark's. During the regular semester I'll wake them up or get their friends to wake them up. In some high school classes I have to start the lesson by going up and down the rows waking almost everyone up. If I have some students who just cannot stay awake I'll sometimes let them doze off for a minute or two and then wake them up and make them stand for a while. Or, I'll wait til we're doing an activity that doesn't require the students to focus on me and make that student do squats off to the side or at the back.

[Draz]

I tickle their hair until they startle awake. Always makes the kids around them laugh. Usually the kids around a sleeper will tell me they are sick and I leave them alone. I had one girl who slept every class and I dubbed her sleeping girl. Last time I saw her she yelled "LOOK! I'M NOT SLEEPING!" Heh.

[cruisemonkey]

I slam my open palm down on their desk as hard, and as close to their ear as possible. Sometimes, I have to peal them off the ceiling afterwards.

[xCustomx]

Only the 2nd grade middle school students are sleeping in my classes this week. It's a combination of no a/c and endofthesemesteritis. Unfortunately I'm still required to teach from the textbook this week, which thus far has been a challenge since half of the class is lethargic. Next week is movie time, and it couldn't come sooner

[Skippy]

It depends. I can usually judge if a student is of two types. The bored sleeper who is just bored of the class and falls asleep. These I wake up and punish if needed. But the rest are dead tired - too much homework, stress, lack of sleep. As long as they are quite I ignore.

[saw6436]

2 words. Wet Willie.

[mikekim]

If my co-teacher doesn't care I certainly don't. These kids don't need Englsih anyways. They are going to be crap college grads selling handphones in a few years.

[ChinaBoy]

sleepers get As in my class for good behaviour

[peppermint]

The first time I caught a kid sleeping I'd just wake him up. The kids knew if I caught them sleeping again in the same class, I'd grab a board marker and doodle on their hand ( they wash off incredibly easily) That only happened once or twice over the years, but when it did, I'd announce to the class if that kid fell asleep a third time during the lesson- everyone gets to draw on the kid. Needless to say, it never came to that.

What's more interesting is when you teach adults and one staggers in not hungover, but still drunk. . .

[Darkness]

I throw chalk at them....

[Fishead soup]

I put them in a class of there own. We call them sleeper cells.

[jvalmer]

If you have 35 kids in your class. There are bound to be a few sleepers. I say let them sleep, it's a few less students you have to keep interested.