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ACTION RESEARCH PROPOSAL
on How to Lessen
Student's Lag Time in Class
Submitted by: Jan Martin M. Justo IV-Bookkeeping
Introduction
In school, students of all ages experience problems while studying or even when
participating in class discussions which affect their learning and concentration to their studies.
These problems actually give disturbance to their studies and become a hindrance for them to
acquire knowledge from their teachers. It also affects the ability of the teachers to control the
way these students do in class. In addition, the time which should be spent for studying and for
participating in discussions is wasted since they would be used to sleep in class and not listen to
the lessons being delivered by the teacher.
Student's Lag time refers to failing to keep up in class or in school. It is also a time
interval where students are not able to participate actively in discussions. This is a problem
which commonly exists in every class though it does not often exist regularly. These students
must know how to lessen these kinds of problems because it gradually affects their
performance in school and also their behavior towards the class. The time which must be
allotted for learning from the class is changed to a period where the student wastes his/her
time just to have enough rest or sleep in class. There may be a lot of reasons why students
sleep in class and whatever that reason is, it still affects every moment of their life especially
when it concerns with their education. Everyone should be aware of this problem because the
lag time being experienced by students in school is also being experienced by a lot of people at
work, at home, in the government, in the office, and everywhere even in abroad.
Background for Research and Description of Related Works
A Stand-Up Approach to Students Sleeping in Class by: David Ginsburg
Has it ever occurred to you that how you respond to students sleeping in class could be
an indicator of your overall capacity to reach and teach them? No more letting kids sleep. But
no wasting words try to wake them either. It was time for action rather than rhetoric, and the
action I found most effective at rousing slumbering students: dropping a textbook on their
desks. It was also, of course, a great way of antagonizing and alienating them. What's more, it
ignored the root of the problem, since I eventually learned from students that sleeping in class
was not in fact a sign of them being unmotivated, but rather usually a sign of them being bored
or genuinely tired. Still, no matter what the reason for students being drowsy, I couldn't
condone sleeping in class. The challenge, then, is to keep kids from sleeping in class without
being insensitive toward them. And the solution for me was a simple rule: You may sleep in
class as long as you're standing up. What this "rule" conveyed to kids was that I understood
how difficult it might be for them to stay awake, but that they had no choice. So if they couldn't
stay awake, they needed to stand up. Not to sleep, of course, but to perk up--by standing in the
back of the room, getting a drink of water, etc. Getting back to the link between how we
respond to sleepy students and our overall capacity to reach and teach them, I'm not saying
learning in my classroom improved because of a crazy "stand if you want to sleep" rule. But I
am saying it wouldn't have improved without this rule or, more accurately, the change in
classroom culture it embodied.
U.S. students lag in science, tests say by: Joseph Picard
In his State of the Union address last night, President Obama devoted several lines to the
slumping stature of U.S. education, by our own standards and globally. The President went on
to how good our educational system can and must again become. He did not dwell on how bad
things now are. The Nation's Report Card released the 2009 Science National Assessment of
Educational Progress report. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was not happy with the
numbers. "The results released today show that our nation's students aren't learning at a rate
that will maintain America's role as an international leader in the sciences," Duncan said.
"When only 1 or 2 percent of children score at the advanced levels on NAEP, the next
generation will not be ready to be world-class inventors, doctors, and engineers." The NAEP are
standardized tests administered to students in Grades 4, 8, and 12 and it has four rankings,
referring to the student's skill level: Below Basic, Basic, Proficient and Advanced. There are
small ratios in Advanced students, as Duncan pointed out, and there are concurrent declines
over the school years in the Proficient and Basic levels. Globally, the US ranks 15th on the
Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA, which is a set of standardized tests
of 15 year-olds around the world. The U.S. scores in the three main categories (reading involved
several tests) were either average or below average. Duncan reiterated the administration's
commitment to improving student achievement "in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics. Our nation's long-term economic prosperity depends on providing a world-class
education to all students, especially in mathematics and science," he said.
Why Do Students Sleep in Class? By: Ash Tan
Here are 4 reasons from the point of view of a student as to why certain students always
sleep in their classes.
First reason: Teachers do not interact with the students in the class. This is the most classic
reason out of all the other possible reasons. Some teachers unknowingly show more attention
to the blackboard instead of their target audience, the students who are actually in the class.
Second reason: Students find the subject too boring to actually stay awake. Some of the most
boring subjects are often taught by the most boring teacher possible. Subjects like history
should not be read to students. This act is comparable to reading a bed time story to students
waiting in line into dreamland. Teachers should try to turn these bed time stories into
interesting stories to get the students' attention.
Third reason: Some teachers possess the most beautiful singing voices which could even turn
bed time stories to lullabies. These teachers speak in a monotonous voice and the words
coming out of their mouths are more like chants for a sleep spell.
Fourth reason: When action is not taken against a sleeping student, other students would
surely tag along the ride to dreamland. Since the teacher is ignorant of this problem, it then
becomes a mutual understanding between the teacher and students that sleeping is permitted
in class, often seen as win-win situation between both parties.
A teacher who calls his student a rotten apple is just a terrible farmer.
ADHD Children and Attention in the Classroom by: Sandra Rief
Keeping a student who has attention-deficit problems (ADD or ADHD) focused and on-task in
the classroom is a challenge to teachers, and it requires experimenting with a variety of
approaches. Overhead projectors are among the best tools for focusing a child’s attention,
because they allow the teacher to frame important information by blocking irrelevant parts of
the transparency to face students; to avoid instructional lag time while writing on the board
and erasing; and to prepare transparencies in advance, saving instructional time. Use
Document cameras which are instructional tools that let you project 3-D objects and pages
directly (without a transparency).
Here are additional ideas for capturing students’ attention:
1. Use storytelling, real-life examples, and anecdotes. Children love to hear stories --
particularly ones that happened to the teacher when he or she was a child.
2. Add a bit of mystery by bringing in one or more objects relevant to the upcoming lesson
in a box, bag, or even a pillowcase. This is a wonderful way to generate lively discussions
or writing activities.
3. Signal to students through the use of musical instruments – it is an effective way to get
their attention.
4. Use clear verbal signals.
5. Flash the overhead lights or raise your hand to signal that it is time to be silent and pay
attention. To get students to focus on a specific object or word, turn off the lights and
illuminate it with a flashlight or laser pointer.
6. Call students up front to the board, on occasion, and give individual instruction.
7. Encourage students to write on transparencies used with overhead projectors. Their
work can then be shared and discussed with the class.
8. Draw a colored frame around material you want students to pay close attention to.
9. Change your voice -- talk louder, in a higher or lower pitch, or whisper -- to draw
attention to important information.
10. Illustrate vocabulary words and science concepts with small drawings or stick figures.
11. Clap in a particular pattern, and have students clap in the same pattern back to you.
12. Move around the classroom when presenting material, to maintain your visibility.
Synthesis: In these 4 articles, they are all related somehow in the way they are currently
facing the problem in the classroom especially on students who are sleeping in class or who are
experiencing lag time. Different views and opinions are depicted but they all want to focus more
on proving reasons and solutions on how to lessen the chances of students sleeping in class.
These views come from doctors, students, teachers, government official, and even from the
teachers of children who have ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). All of them
wanted to resolve the problems of getting lag time in class which does not only are applicable
for the students but to everyone as well. Studies abroad had shown that there is an extreme
effect of lag time on students and must therefore be given prior attention.
Situational Analysis
This problem does not always occur in every class. Oftentimes, it occurs on a few
students and in different classes especially if the discussion or lesson seems to be boring.
Whenever the lesson turns out to be difficult to understand or when there are only a few things
to do, some students were already in their desks with their eyes closed and heads down low.
Also a factor which makes them lose their focus in class is that they usually lack sleep from last
night. Most students try to regain sleep by consuming time in class for them to sleep. Others
who are not feeling well would sleep in class and would miss a lot of things because of their
sickness. There are many reasons why students often sleep in class. Some might not be feeling
well; others might have problems at home which make them to have lack of time to sleep.
Having the lack of parental supervision and night time jobs also makes them to have no time set
in going to bed.
This happens in every class but it actually happens depending on how often the student sleeps
in the class. Every student must know how to manage their time so that at home, they would
already accomplish all the things that they need to do and also they would have plenty of time
to sleep and to rest. But even if they are doing the right thing in managing their time, there are
still some students who make it a habit no matter how interestingly interactive the class is…
they fall asleep.
Time Frame
This process if applicable, would definitely be done continuously until the students who
are experiencing lag time in class have lessen and have started participating in the activities in
class. This would depend on the students to determine the time coverage for it to be
implemented since it varies from different students. Whenever there will be students sleeping
in class, this would be performed which makes it an occasional process. However, if proven
effective this would certainly be a continuous process for the students to know the importance
of not wasting their time especially if they experience lag time in school.
Procedure
If it’s one of your more regularly involved students, perhaps give them an option of an
extra credit research assignment they can bring to your next class period covering the subject
matter they missed while they were sleeping. You might simply choose to wake the student and
ask them if they are feeling alright. To pull this off you need to approach it with true concern for
the student's health and well being. Most of the time, student's are so embarrassed and so
appreciative of your genuine concern that they don't let it happen again. Encourage students to
actively participate, take notes (explain that this is helpful to their learning as it stimulates
memory in the brain) and in particularly long classes break up the session with activities or
paired conversations about a topic to ensure that students stay engaged. Students don't learn
much from listening, so remember that the more they "experience" the learning process the
more you are really teaching.
(Classroom Management by Lisa Rodriguez, Ph.D.)
Here are other ways to deal with students sleeping in class:
Wake the student. Make it hard for the student to sleep. Seat the student at the front of the class or
near your desk. Keep the student active. Call on the student unexpectedly.
Your goal is to heighten her alertness, not humiliate her, and so ask a question you are confident she can
answer. If the student continues to fall asleep over a period of time, contact her parents. Give her
activities to do during those times of day when she is most prone to falling asleep. In fact, incorporating
physical activity into your classroom is a good practice to follow with all your students.
(Classroom Problem Solver: Sleeping in Class by Dr. Kenneth Shore)
Potential Importance
In this procedure, all students would definitely benefit by reducing their chances of
getting lag time in class discussions. These students would now have the urge to study harder
in school and also to obtain higher knowledge by learning through their teachers. The teachers
would also be benefiting here since their ways to give education to their students would
increase and it would surely help them provide the best knowledge to give for their students.
The parents also would benefit here because they would see that their children would have the
urge and energy to study in class and learn more in school.
The ways on how to lessen student’s lag time which are stated here are safe and is
actually effective on the part of the student, teacher, and the parents because it all gives
emphasis on the importance of education in every children here on earth and as the saying
goes, “Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means
teaching them to behave as they do not behave.”
Expected Results
If this would be implemented, the possible outcome of this is that the performance of
every student in class would improve and their interest to gain knowledge will be enhanced.
Aside from making the performance of the student improve, this would certainly result to a
discovery of new ways on how to develop and solve problems and issues concerning the
students and the school as usual. On the side of the teachers, they would gain new techniques
and ways in teaching and properly stabilize the quality of education being given by the school.
There are different ways on how this would result on the students. They may become active in
the class and would learn a lot in every lesson. Being able to be awake in class helps you
become more attentive and efficient in school. They may change their views in the subject and
in the teacher from boring to incredible. As you can see, this is highly beneficial to everyone
and chances are this would be a successful process in making the productive citizens of
tomorrow through reducing what we call “lag time” in every institution there is especially when
it comes to school where the future citizens of the country is shaped and molded. If you know
how to handle these concerns, you would also know how to deal with the students who are
experiencing these problems.
References
Breaking with Tradition by Dennis Brooks
A Stand-Up Approach to Students Sleeping in Class by David Ginsburg 19 Sept. 2010
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/105428/20110126/students-education-science.htmU.S. students lag in science, tests say by Joseph Picard
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/shore/shore005.shtmlClassroom Problem Solver Sleeping In Class by Dr. Kenneth Shore
http://www.4faculty.org/includes/108r2.jspClassroom Management by Lisa Rodriguez, Ph.D.
http://askville.amazon.com/Teachers-student-sleeps-class/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=16180445
http://ezinearticles.com/?Why-Do-Students-Sleep-in-Class?&id=2918814Why Do Students Sleep in Class? By Ash Tan
http://www.joannejacobs.com/2011/08/study-u-s-students-lag-in-math-reading/Study: U.S. students lag in math, reading by Joanne Jacobs 19 Aug. 2011
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/01/u-s-students-lag-behind/
http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/5645.html