Monday morning 8 am. You hear the teacher start the lecture. About five minutes in you feel your eye lids getting heavy. Before you know it you are waking up right before your head hits the desk, and then you are pretending you meant to do that. We have all been there! It is not the teachers fault for teaching boring material; it is your fault for not being able to stay awake during the class. There is a temporary and permanent fix to the problem, with the permanent fix being a better way to help you stay awake in class. The temporary process you need alot of supplies to help you get through the class. Coffee, gum, and sunflower seeds are the supplies you will need. For the permanent process it is a simple one that requires nothing more than planning ahead of time and a good alarm clock.
TEMPORARY SOLUTION The first example of a temporary fix is coffee. The caffinee in coffee is a sure way to perk yourself up in any situation because it gives you that extra energy to stay alert.
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You have to make sure that you pick the most annoying, and loudest alarm so that you ensure you wake up at the right time. If you had a quiet alarm, you will sleep right through it and not make it to class. Next, you need to get up at least an hour before your class starts, this gives you enough time for your body to fully wake up. If you wake up fifteen minutes before you have to be in the classroom, your body will not be awake by the time you get there. This shouldn't be too hard because you have planned ahead of time and made sure you went to bed eight hours before you were supposed to wake up. Another thing to do in the morning is to make sure you eat a good breakfast. Sugary breakfasts enable you to fall asleep in class. If you make sure you have a nutrious, healthy breakfast, you will improve the entire course of your day and give you the extra energy you need to handle staying awake throughout the entire
There were many days I would wake up and feel like not attending class but I would get up and go anyways. The
In 2014, scientist in California have collected data from 46 different schools, some starting early and others starting after 8:30 A.M. Students that woke up later performed 36% better than those who slept less. If a students sleep schedule gets messed up, soon the rest of their health will too.
Numerous adolescents are not getting enough rest and this is often because of early school begin times. The underlying foundations of the issue incorporate poor teenager rest propensities that don 't take into account enough hours of value rest; rushed calendars with afterschool , activities and jobs, homework hours and family commitments; and a conflict between societal requests, for example, early school begin times , and natural changes that put most teens on a later rest wake clock. As a result , when the time has come to wake up for school, the adolescents 's body says it is still the center of the night, and he or she has had too little rest to feel refreshed and alert.. (“Backgrounder: Later School Start Times”, n.d.)So what is a Adolescent’s
According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, you need to get enough sleep in order for you to grow and develop. If one does not get enough sleep, it will lower the immune system and increase the chances of getting sick. Also, if school starts later, you will have more time to eat a proper breakfast, which also benefits your health, and is important to develop the brain. When we rush to get ready in the morning, we usually don’t have time to eat breakfast. On top of not being rushed, you will not be as stressed whether you’re a parent, teacher, or
Pulling all-nighters because of a difficult test/final is becoming more common as students get older. Students stay up all night studying for their test only able to squeeze in a couple of hours of sleep. Then they end up fatigued or even falling asleep during the test. This results in you not doing the best you could have done if you were more focused and awake. If school started later, you wouldn’t be as tired during your test.
A reason for this is that waking up too early could be dangerous. In highschool students begin to learn to drive, some owning their own cars to drive to school (Pietrangelo and Watson). When they have to wake up early in order to drive to school they may be too tired for it to be considered safe for them to drive on the roads. This leads to car crashes that leaves their lives and the person who they hits life in danger. Not to mention those who are close enough to walk to school also may be too tired to properly pay attention.
These students will just rely on their inadequacy of knowledge to conform to mediocrity and get sidetracked in their path. This is why the creativity in lesson plans is an essential requirement for any teachers. Textbooks will only bring one perspective to a matter, formulas and definitions will become less exciting if they are only understood in one way. Still, there are teachers that devote their time to excite their students brains on these seemingly boring knowledge, one example of them are the author’s senior English teacher, Mr Jack McFarland. The author
Have you ever felt like you are not taking in as much as you could from your first few classes well if you have you are right. Your brain is not actually taking in information until 8:30AM that is because you should not be waking up until 8:00 AM. The reason for this is your mental clock. A mental clock is how your brain decides when you should be sleeping and when you should be getting up in the morning.
Waking up early affects teenagers’ social life, mentality, physical being, and academic career. A study has proven that lack of sleep will affect a teenagers’ life in a negative way, “Overtime, not obtaining enough sleep can hurt student’s healthy, safety, social life, and school career.” (National Sleep foundation 1) Due to teenagers naturally not being able to fall asleep till later in the night and forcing students to wake up severely early in the morning for school, they are exhausted. A recent study shows that students are tired throughout their school day, 60% of children under 18 say that they are tired throughout the day (National Sleep Foundation 1)
America’s high schools are in desperate need of help. Students should feel there is a purpose in going to school and getting an education. They need to be more motivated to go to school. The amount of tests students take in High School is ridiculous. Students need to take less standardized tests.
I think later start times are very good. In the article it states that, "They also improve academic success, attendance, medical health and cut sleep-related car accidents" (NEWSELA). I agree because I hate getting up and then I don 't want to go to school because it is so early.
Do you or someone you know feel extremely tired, depressed, or sleepless when going to school? It seems that you're not the only one because many people around the world suffer this issue due to school start times. “Over 2/3 of teenagers and children do not receive all of their sleep requirements” (Yeager, page 1). Many questions are surrounded around school start times and how much it affects the student. Does school start times affect the students sleep in any way?
For student like us, by getting enough sleep, we can be more focus in class. A medicine instructor at Harvard Medical School, Lawrence Epstein says that the sleep deprivation can affect student performances in class. Another statistics by Health Research Funding also prove that sleep deprivation will cause
When it comes to sleep, as many already know, there are various stages. However, what is rarely covered is the stages other than REM (rapid eye movement). The first stage encountered on a nightly basis is that of NREM 1 (stage 1). In this stage, our bodies essentially start to slow down various bodily functions such as breathing and pulse (“sleep”, n.d). Next comes NREM 2 (stage 2).
So, this is the teachers’ duties to make the students pay attention to the lesson when the students feel so bored and lost their concentration during the lesson. Based on my observation, there are some ways to make the students pay attention to the lesson, they are: • The teacher would review the last material, and then she asked the students to memorize the last material about the name of the day and the month. • She said “please focus”