Hi there. In this education post, I would like to cover the topic of tired/low-energy from students. I refer to students as those in grade school and high school. Some of the information I present here can apply to college and university students.
Tired students can be difficult to work with. These students could be tired physically or mentally exhausted. Reasons for student fatigue could be from a lack of sleep, a busy day and/or not enough food to eat or illness. Students who are tired may not perform as well compared to their usual selves. Some students with stronger will and determination will try to still try hard in classes, tests and tutoring sessions and not use fatigue as an excuse. Those who work with tired students should exercise more patience and understanding. It is not realistic to expect a high level of effort and work from someone is not a great physical state.
There is a luck factor when it comes to student schedules. For the most part, students choose the courses they want and the administrators select student schedules for everyone. Schedules are done in a way to meet classroom number requirements with student and staff and time requirements. On a somewhat unrelated note, there is a branch of mathematics that deals with scheduling, ordering and systems. Students may have semesters where one semester has more demanding and difficult courses than the other semester. There may or may not be balance in a student school year with the semesters and courses.
Another part of a student schedule is hobbies and activities outside of school hours. These include after school sports teams, organized hobbies outside of school like piano, music learning, martial arts, sports, coding schools, chess, etc. Hobbies and activities can be demanding if the activities require intense focus, learning and work. As one example, those who play hockey and have school would have early hockey practice at 6AM then school from 8:30AM to 3:30PM. There are also sports games over the weekend which takes away free time that can be used for homework and test preparations.
Patience and understanding is important from the tutor/educator point of view. A tired student is not able to perform as well compared to normal. It is not realistic to expect a high level of effort or work from a student that is tired or is low energy. It is unfortunate if a student is not at their best when they need for something like a test, presentation or final exam. Tutors and educators will have to do their best to help their student(s) given the circumstances.
Thank you for reading.
