You're betting for value and to get people to fold
This makes no sense. How can you make a value bet into a pot where a player with any lowly pair will have the best hand by the river more than half the time?

Assuming your opponent will call your bet with certainty, you're actually doing nothing but diminishing your own expected return when you bet with a draw. You don't want your opponents to call you when you bet with a draw.

By just checking, maybe you're giving a guy in early position with 10-J a chance to draw his straight.
This is also sort of silly. You're suggesting that you protect your ace high hand in a multiway pot against a player who might have a straight draw?