Giving an "A"
Taking about a paradigm shift, chapter three blew me away.
What would it be like to give everyone an A? How would these students react and
perform in class? I have so many students that are scared to death about how
they are going to perform on a State mandated test that they don’t care how
they do in class because they believe they have already failed. I thought it was amazing how the students were
asked to write a letter at the beginning of the year and date it for the end of
the year. As I read each of the letters I could feel a transformation in each
of the students. I know this was with music class but in the back of my mind I
think it could happen in a science class. Students struggle with friends,
family, and all of life’s bumps in the road, what if we could take one of those
bumps out of the road for them. I would like to see the what if just one time
if I gave all of my students an A.