A Well Deserved A?

From my education feed from Google Reader and through Mr. Fisch’s blog, I found Mr. Krause’s blog, The Possibility of More, Part I. I found this blog to be very interesting, though the topic was very predictable; another new teaching style. There’s no surprise there, as Arapahoe is a very good school, and we must have very good teachers. Mr. Krause thought to use the technique to give all of his students an A from the very beginning of the semester. Now, there is where the interest lies. An A? At the very beginning of the semester? Here’s the catch: at the end of the semester, you have to write a final on why you are an A student. After a while of thinking, I thought, “why not?” It seems that as a student, I would get an easy A. That suits me just fine. I don’t have to do any work, just write down my good qualities at the end of the semester. But then, I thought even more, and came up with the conclusion that this blog is disusing a TEACHER’S teaching methods, so I didn’t think that I liked Mr. Krause’s ways of teaching… but, what if the student didn’t do their homework… that would NOT make them an “A worthy” student, would it? No. An A student should do their work, even if they get an A no matter what. And that, I believe, is the whole point. It’s not about the grade, it’s about your ways of learning. The way that you see things, and how far you are willing to go to not only get a good grade, but a good education. Your good qualities don’t matter, in the end, if you don’t have any desire to learn. This is SCHOOL, after all! It all comes back to what our teacher’s are always telling us… YOU control your learning, and how far it takes you. Not a grade. Even if you don’t get a 100% on every assignment, that doesn’t mean you don’t deserve an A. It all comes down to what you personally took away from the experience. So now, Mr. Krause’s Juniors will decide… Do YOU deserve an A?