I’m sure this is on our list of bail out moves, but a simple R & D is totally kick ass when it comes to eating up minutes and getting through the hard month of April.
Don’t want to teach a certain class? Tell them to shut up (ok, be nice), let them know that jGR will be enforced big time that day, hand them a chapter book that is way below their level (this is key bc when they can do it without effort their confidence goes up and they all of a sudden behave better – duh!), tell them to read the first chapter quietly for 20 min. or so, then go to the first parapraph and do classic R and D in the simplest way possible of translating into L1 and then discussing in L2 paragraph by paragraph. It is so mechanical, there are no breaks, and that one book, with long enough D sessions in L2, could last many many months, easily until the end of the year, and it is effortless on our part.
Beats working!