I really enjoyed this reading more than I thought I would. It is definitely a nice change from all of the scholarly reading we have been doing, and in some ways more applicable to life. Although I think a lot of what Mr. Zander said are things that have been said before in other ways (like the power of positive thinking and self-fulfilling prophesies) I really felt that using the term "giving an A" encapsulates his message in a great way. So often we set ourselves up for failure by looking at what can't be done instead of what can be done.
This year I will be teaching an entirely new subject in an entirely new school and for the first time in my teaching career, I will be free of having the dreaded TAKS test hanging over my head. For some reason, I think that by giving my kids an A to start with, we will all be able to go much further than we would otherwise. Since I am teaching an entirely new subject and all of the kids basically start out in the same place, at zero, we might as well all start out with an A, right?
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