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Now You Try

With the guidelines of how to enforce the rules (1. Know the rules; 2. Listen and validate; 3. Ask specific questions), let's see what you can do with this situation:

Scenario

This is Mr. Beak's first year of implementing Opera by Children into his 4th grade classroom. This was Matilda's 3rd year of being in an opera by children; she is a popular student and the children follow her easily. On the first day of creating the opera she comes to class with her opera journal from previous years in which she wrote an entire opera. She is excited about it and has already shared it with a lot of the children. The other kids seem to want to go along with her idea.

How would you follow all of the rules in this scenario?

Write down your ideas, then go to the next page to compare them to how our specialist would handle the situation.

 

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