Tortoise and the Hare

Foster collaboration and communication

Some students love to work collaboratively with other students. It helps them sustain engagement in protracted projects and activities. For other students, peer interactions can be problematic.  Encourage open lines of communication to help develop student-teacher and student-student relationships that support self-reflection, achievement, and engagement.

Here, one of the characters, the Crane, reacts based on pre-conceived notions of the capacity of Tortoise and Hare to race.  Prompt students to think about how they would feel in a similar situation, like a time that someone pre-judged what they could do.  Model how you felt when something like this happened to you.