Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Sleeping students During my internship class my cooperating teacher lets students sleep during class. The students walk into class and put their heads down and sleep the whole time. She dosent try to wake them up. What can you do as an intern to make the students stay awake during class? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) As an intern there is only so much you can do. I would ask the teacher why she lets them do that and respect her decision. I wouldn't try to intervene but I would hype up my lessons in advance and make sure they are worth the hype. Provide some kind of incentive for staying awake. Make them think "I'm going to want to stay awake during class today." But it is possible that the student is staying up late, not eating right, or they have health issues. So it might be best to just let them sleep.