Learn how to "extract" an interest when necessary. This one's not my favorite, but I confess to doing it when all else fails. "I'll wait till everyone's hand is up (on a simple question I expect most to know or at least venture an educated guess at)," or "If you don't have your hand up for this answer, please write rule three (which is pay attention)," or "Those who don't know can line up last," or "If you don't have your paper done you'll have to stay after the bell rings," or "Those whose names I call can line up," or perhaps I ruthlessly eyeball anyone who doesn't have their hand up for some question I expect the kids to answer, or at least give it a try.
It's nasty business perhaps, but there seem to be times when all the "proper" methods bite the dust and your job is to draw blood. I think these methods are optional because I hope someday to avoid them completely, but at this stage of the game, with thirty or more students in the class and not enough materials to go around, they are still better than getting run down by the students, burned-out with total frustration, and leaving teaching and not doing any good. Wouldn't you agree?
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