nz:
I think it depends on the person. If you’re the kind of person who stays up staring at your flat thing until 4am, you’re not going to learn much in an 8am class. Unless you get 7.5 or 9 hours of uninterrupted sleep per night, you’re not going to learn much at any other hour either. It boggles my mind how little sleep people get here. A few power naps during meetings and while in class cannot make up for the biological need to get sufficient sleep. If you have an 8am class, need to commute for 45 minutes and need 15 minutes to get ready in the morning, you need to be in bed at with the lights off and your phone off at 11:30 at the latest, earlier than that if you don’t hit the pillow and immediately fall asleep. Most people I know are out until that late or later, and their small children that need to go to school in the morning aren’t getting the message that bedtimes are important either…
So yeah, if, as a society, there is the consensus that going to bed “early” is “stupid”, then it’s a bad idea to have classes early.
This is Teaching English in Taiwan. So, yeah, it’s daft to teach them early.
DrewC:
At my first uni job in Korea, classes started 7:15 am for the EMI classes. The Korean professors didn’t want to teach early, so they told the administrators to give us foreign teachers the crap morning slots.
We also get given the morning slots.
DrewC
February 25, 2023, 10:12am
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Yeah, I still have occasional 8am and 9am classes. But 7:15 was… something else. Some winter mornings it would still be dark on the commute over there.
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