Back in College: this lecture saw students fall asleep, and left them alone. He let them sleep and he continued on with the class, with those students who were awake and ready to learn.

He held no grudges.

He did not judge.

May be he knew that if a student fell asleep in his class, it was because they were struggling. Because they were either taking up a bash last night or they stayed up studying all night, or perhaps even playing games, but either way, he did not take away from them what was their choice: to participate or to sleep.

So engage students with the material, tell stories, put across a great sense of humor, and bring up interesting and profound topics that they like the most depending on your class generation.. talk about that artist, current affairs, their fav soap opera etc

None will want to miss out on your class, instead, most students will look forward to it, so when someone fell asleep, everyone understood that there was an underlying issue, and that teacher took note of it.

I think that ultimately, this choice of participating or sleeping should be left to the student.

Teachers don’t know half of what goes on in the student’s life, and instead of waking that student up, perhaps they should try their best to engage that student with the material in the first place.

Personally to answer your question , “Don’t do anything. Just let him sleep.” why that answer coz when you wake him up they disrupt your lecture in class even more than his sleep.

Later after lecture summon him as ask him why he was so tired. Then the student will give out his reason.

Until next time,

Talk to each other, support each other, take care of each other.