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Teachers have spent so much time learning a certain subject. They can easily set an objective for the students because it's what they've trained for. Teachers are also aware of what needs to be learned, while students are used to being told what to learn. This makes it easier for teachers to create a project. Students,...
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Now, some people may think: "If students create their own project then they would do it,"
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but students would rather create something to their own benefit. What I mean by this is, students will come up with a task that's easy enough to complete. Nothing challenging, time consuming, and well organized would be taken in to consideration. They don't want to create something that makes them have to think outside...
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Which helps them create something that can be a challenge to the students' mind yet, be able to be completed as well. This will allow the student to think outside the box and be able to understand what the teacher is trying to teach them while the summer break is taking place. Once they return to school they will alrea...
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summer projects should be designed by teachers and not students. This should be done this way because teachers have a better understanding as to what to do and how to create a project with objectives. Students are used to following instructions in order to learn, so having them create their own project to learn would b...
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Yes students should design the summer project.
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Plenty of students would get their projects done; it'll be better understanding and easier on the students.
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the students are going to be able to choose what is going to helped them over the break with their summer projects like making it fun to do maybe with friends, family members, or anything to get your summer projects done.
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From school experiences when students come back from their summer break plenty of students don't have their summer projects because students don't like the books they have to choose from. The project should be fun for students its their summer break it should be fun and about things they like and turn it an essay about...
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Students would be interested in doing them if they were designed by the students. If the project would be student designed it would be much easier for students because the student will have to find something that interested in and what they like and also it would make it much better because the students would have to t...
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It would help if getting a couple students from different grade levels to talk about the summer project.
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The students would talk about what is going to be needed for the project. Students are going to agree and disagree about what they dont like about the way the teacher designed the summer projects and turn it into somethings students like and an easier and fun way for students to do their summer projects. Getting experi...
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I believe that the students should design the summer project in a fun and creative way instead of reading books and telling things about the book, therefore more students can get them done.
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I could see why it should be teacher designed because teachers know exactly what their looking towards when trying to help students see their problems in certain areas,
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but students understand things more when it's coming from experience. 
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As I sit in a room surrounded by other teenagers, I contemplate the effectiveness of summer projects designed by these students. Most of them would create a meaningless project that took minimal time to create, and even less to complete. And although many student projects would probably be more fun than ones created by...
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The majority of students do not enjoy having summer projects. Because of this, if students were allowed to design their own projects for the summer, they would create easy projects for themselves in order to complete as little work as possible over the summer
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While most students would be happier doing a student-designed project, few would actually be willing to put in the time and effort to design a good project, leading to a summer filled with pointless work that fails to stimulate the student's mind and prepare them for their classes in the fall.
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A major problem with student-designed projects is the students' lack of knowledge about the coursework they will be studying in the next year
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Although a student project may be fun, it is unlikely to adequately prepare the students for their classes. The purpose of summer projects are to prepare the student for the next year's work; the teacher knows what will be studied and is therefore better able to prepare material for the summer. Teachers are also more ...
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Teachers are expected to create quality projects for their students to complete, which are not full of busy work with no real meaning. Because teachers are both paid to design and teach curriculum to students, and enjoy the subject they teach, they are more likely to put time and effort into creating a meaningful summe...
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Students, on the other hand, often do not share the teacher's passion for their subject, and have no motive for designing a good project
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If a student's passion is math, but they have been told to design a summer project to prepare for the next year's English class, they are less likely to spend time on the project, because they do not enjoy it and have no interest in pursuing a career in English.
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If students were to design their own summer projects, this would mean that each year there would be new projects.
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New projects each year would create non-uniform summer learning, meaning that each year of students would enter their new classes with widely varying knowledge from the summer. This ends up being harder on the teacher, who has no way of knowing if the students are prepared to begin class, and may cut into learning tim...
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The best option for creating summer projects is to have the teachers design projects for their incoming students to complete the summer prior to taking the teacher's class.
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Although student projects would be fun and easy, they miss the point of doing summer projects and would end up as extra busy-work for students to complete, rather than a meaningful assignment meant to prepare them for the year ahead.           
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Summer is a time that both students and teachers tend to enjoy. It gives the students a chance to relax, and not worry about things such as homework, projects, quizzes, and tests. The teachers also get a chance to take a break from grading and assigning work.
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Yet, if students still had to do a summer project in order to keep learning over the summer, it should be student-designed
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students tend to be busier over the summer with many different things, and the project should cater to their schedule.
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During the school year, most students are very busy with school work, along with different activities such as jobs, sports, and school clubs. For the most students, summer is the only opportunity that they have to relax, or spend time with family and friends. Vacations and family events are usually panned to take place...
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The student should be the one to design the project in order for it to be flexible to their schedule.
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Students designing their on projects would also be a great opportunity for teachers to get a break.
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Many teachers tend to spend hours on end coming up with lesson plans and grading work. Although teachers would still have to grade the project, the student would be taking a small work load off of the teacher by designing the summer project themselves, And, it could possibly educate the teacher on a different subject.
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Giving students the benefit of designing the summer project could also let them be more creative =, and enjoy the task at hand
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Most of the time when students have to do projects, it is based off of a subject that is being taught in school: Such as math, history, and science. Letting students be more creative could also allow them to integrate their summer project into their summer schedule. Such as calculating the total amount of hours they ha...
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Some may argue that students would not be responsible enough to plan and execute the summer project.
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Though, there are students who do not do the appropriate amount of work throughout the school year, many students already handle great responsibilities in their life; such as babysitting a younger sibling, sports practices, and having a job to not only support themselves, but their families too.
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As previously stated, summer is usually an important time for both students and teachers. Rather they use it to participate in activities, or family events. Or, relax and take a break from school and work. At the end of the day, a student's education is important to maintain. But, so is their time and schedules. That i...
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By being allowed to design their own summer projects, students are afforded significantly many more opportunities to learn outside of the classroom and are also able to accomplish their project with a degree of flexibility, letting them both enjoy their time off but also retain information that they learned the previou...
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Many students have quite the chaotic schedule during the summer months.
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Between jobs, internships, and trying to enjoy their time away from school, it's easy for teacher-assigned work to get tossed by the wayside during this time.
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By letting their summer work be student-driven, kids will be able to adapt their commitments to their teacher's desire to have them continue their learning over the break and not have to worry about finishing assignments by deadlines that they already know aren't possible for them to meet.
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For example, if a student is going to Latin America over the summer, instead of having them mindlessly conjugate verbs on worksheets to submit for their Spanish class, they can actually put what they learned to use out in the world by talking with locals or taking in the culture through music and food. If another stud...
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However, the opportunities extend beyond just languages and cultures. If a student is interning at a company in a different city, they have to learn a variety of skills, one of which being how to budget correctly.
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Here, they can employ what they learned in their math class in order to help them out with their finances by figuring out how much things will cost and what percentages of their money will have to go to which necessity. Again, this applies to everyone, as students who don't have that opportunity still get the chance to...
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These examples highlight another main benefit of letting students design their own summer projects, that being the increased opportunities that are availible outside of the classroom.
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Instead of having one general project assigned by the teacher that is monotonus and isn't any different than regular school, students can customize their learning to their specific situation and access things that aren't availible inside the classroom. Students that are interested in making music can apply for internsh...
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One might be thinking at this point, "Come on now. This is great for all the kids who are motivated to learn and are enough of a go-getter to go out and do this stuff, but what about the ones who just want to sit inside and play video games or hang out with their friends?"
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This is where the real beauty of student-designed work comes in. Even those who don't want to have to sacrifice their precious three months of freedom can still get in valuable time applying what they learned the previous school year.
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Spend your summer days inside playing video games? Calculate your win rate or determine your average time taken to complete certain levels. Prefer to hang out with your buddies at the pool all day? Determie your arc in the air doing different tricks off the diving board. The ability to adapt one's schedule to their si...
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If students can create their own project that is specific to their life over the summer, then they are accomplishing several goals. It allows them to actually get the work done, instead of being unable to do so based off of their schedule. It lets them be interested in their learning instead of complaining about a bori...
Concluding Statement
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Studies show that students lose information over the summer break, if thats the case then the solution is to keeping working during the summer. some schools have summer projects to keep students from losing any information. The option for the projects are either that they are teacher-designed or student-designed
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I believe the required summer projects for students should be teacher-designed
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it allows the teacher to chose what subject they work on,
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if students designed it they would make it too easy,
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the teacher can make it fit each students level.
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some subjects in school are more important than others, like math is more important then king tut of Egypt. Students may not realize the importance of some subjects and chose a different one to do their project on. An example is when I chose my sophomore classes, I decided that choir was more important then my history...
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The teacher would know what subject is most forgotten or which subject will be best for the student to learn. That is why the summer project should be teacher-designed.
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everyone knows kids like to slack off when we can. We skip work, right fake answers, and cheat to get out of doing all the work assigned. If the subject of the project is left for the student to chose then it might not do them any good in retaiing proper information. When the student is told to find something to do a ...
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1C899A4C779B
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If given the chance a student will almost always chose the easy work which is why a teacher should design the project so that the student is challenging themselves and growing.
Claim
Claim 5
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1C899A4C779B
1,619,122,083,560
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Next, "All men are not created equally" is a quote often used by teachers when telling kids not to compare themselves to others. This reinforces that a teacher should create the project because the only person who knows your academic level other then you, is your teacher. Teachers pay attention to the students and see ...
Evidence
Evidence 3
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1C899A4C779B
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. This is a perfect example as to why a teacher should create the project, so that the teacher can give the students projects at a level that is achievable for them but will also keep them on track.
Claim
Claim 6
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1C899A4C779B
1,619,122,099,420
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People might argue that the students should have their own choice as to what they create it on.
Counterclaim
Counterclaim 1
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1C899A4C779B
1,619,122,113,137
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The students free choice would come out during the creation of the project meaning it could be perfect for them and then they work on it in their own way
Rebuttal
Rebuttal 1
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1C899A4C779B
1,619,122,120,081
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I believe the required summer projects for students should be teacher-designed because it allows the teacher to chose what subject they work on, if students designed it they would make it too easy, and the teacher can make it fit each students level. 
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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B6113C09A9DE
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Summer break from schools has been a topic of consideration for a long time. Many people do not appreciate a summer break because they forget school material too easily throughout those few months of no school. Others say the break is beneficial due to the fact that students' minds are given a while to rest. Some schoo...
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B6113C09A9DE
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they are assuring that the students do not forget too much
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Claim 1
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B6113C09A9DE
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are still able to function well at the beginning of the next school year.
Claim
Claim 2
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B6113C09A9DE
1,619,021,470,033
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The issue comes in on the differing ideas that these summer projects should be teacher-designed or student-designed. In the schools that require summer projects, the projects should be student-designed.
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B6113C09A9DE
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Schools have given summer breaks with the means of giving both teachers and students a rest. But due to such a large gap in between classes, students have often been observed to forget many things and therefore need lots of review at the beginning of school, which takes up lots of needed class time. If we spend lots of...
Evidence
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B6113C09A9DE
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With a mandatory summer project that is teacher-designed, the teacher gets even less of a break. Instead of looking forward to the end of school and a nice, long break from the patience-draining teenagers, they have to worry about creating projects for all their students. Since they are already so tremendously busy, he...
Evidence
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B6113C09A9DE
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Personally, I would enjoy having to design my own project for summer break. It would give me something more to do, and if it's designed by me, I would find it vastly more enjoyable than one created by the teacher. In my experience, I have quickly forgotten lots of school material in the span of summer break. Summer bre...
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Evidence 3
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B6113C09A9DE
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Having to create something ourselves allows our minds to be more free and imaginative.
Claim
Claim 3
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B6113C09A9DE
1,619,021,381,643
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A summer project is a good idea, but whether or not it should be designed by the student or by the teacher is still under thought. The benefits of having student-designed projects far outweigh those of having teacher-designed projects. Letting students make their own project allows them to increase their consumption of...
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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759C3FAFA8BF
1,618,760,970,183
0
188
Imagine having to do a summer project over a topic you don't like. Some schools have decided to do this with their students in order for them to still learn while they are on summer break.
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1,618,760,984,726
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Although the teacher can make sure you have a topic that you have learned about, the students should design the project. The project should be student designed
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759C3FAFA8BF
1,618,760,990,889
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404
they can chose how they want to do the project,
Claim
Claim 1
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759C3FAFA8BF
1,618,761,007,957
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459
they don't have to worry about not knowing the topics,
Claim
Claim 2
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759C3FAFA8BF
1,618,761,055,642
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502
can be a topic that they like or enjoy
Claim
Claim 3
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759C3FAFA8BF
1,618,760,938,102
514
571
the students can chose how they want to do their project.
Claim
Claim 4
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759C3FAFA8BF
1,618,760,952,952
572
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For example, they could chose how they would want to present their project. Either by choosing to have a report or a presentation to show the class. Another example is they might want to have a group project. The more hands they have the more creative they can make the assignment. Both of these examples show that choos...
Evidence
Evidence 1
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759C3FAFA8BF
1,618,761,015,392
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they wouldn't have to worry about not knowing the topic if they get to chose.
Claim
Claim 5
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759C3FAFA8BF
1,618,761,036,565
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For example, if their picking topics they would chose one that they remember. The students wouldn't pick a topic they didn't understand or remember for their assignment. Another example is that they could pick one that fascinates them. Like for a science project they could pick a marine wildlife topic, if thats what th...
Evidence
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759C3FAFA8BF
1,618,761,080,640
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Like in my first example having a group project can make it more enjoyable. Because their in a group they could have friends working alongside them making it more fun. This project is where they might be able to let their creative side take control. Students would want the work to be colorful and interesting. Both havi...
Evidence
Evidence 3
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759C3FAFA8BF
1,618,761,098,387
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the students should design their own summer project because they can chose how they want to do the project, don't have to worry about not knowing the project, and can be something they like or enjoy.
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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D1B06A3C02B3
1,618,861,744,201
0
255
Assigned schoolwork during summer break has been a widely debated matter for years. For both supporters and opposers of schoolwork being assigned during summer break begs a crucial question: Should summer projects be student-designed or teacher-designed?
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D1B06A3C02B3
1,618,861,752,492
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Although assumptions may lead many to state that teachers, who hold the experience, should deisgn these projects, it is more beneficial for students to design the projects themselves.
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D1B06A3C02B3
1,618,861,820,214
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654
There are many misconceptions regarding the mentality and intuition of students; it is very likely that student-designed projects can prepare them for large programs and/or assignments, such as the Personal Project.
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Claim 1
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D1B06A3C02B3
1,618,861,825,684
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713
In addition, it may also relieve teachers of excess work.
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Claim 2
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D1B06A3C02B3
1,618,861,864,927
714
986
An increasingly common assumption is that pscyhological intuition, and creativity in some aspects, increases with age, thus students are less capable of designing a project, or most things for that matter, than adults. Several people argue that students may lack maturity,
Counterclaim
Counterclaim 1
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D1B06A3C02B3
1,618,861,900,129
986
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but various pscyhologists, notably Generic_Name, have disproved the claim, finding no evidence of maturity being linked to one's intuition or strive of creativity. In fact, this myth actually arose due to various reforms of the Progressive Era restricting children and immigrants' personal freedom, which continues to t...
Rebuttal
Rebuttal 1
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D1B06A3C02B3
1,618,861,920,670
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Adding to that, and perhaps one of the most common arguments against teacher-designed projects, is the statement that students are not exposed to projects that require overarching critical thinking
Counterclaim
Counterclaim 2
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D1B06A3C02B3
1,618,861,928,083
1,708
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Research conducted by various universities, such as the University of Chicago, has shown that students are not prepared for upcoming projects every time they complete a teacher-designed project;
Rebuttal
Rebuttal 2
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D1B06A3C02B3
1,618,861,945,597
1,904
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for example, a student completing a project that provides them with a template, deadline, and requirements may not actually affect them to the extent that many people assume, as the student simply searches for information rather than being properly invested and analyzing the information they have, as they would be much...
Evidence
Evidence 1
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D1B06A3C02B3
1,618,862,019,380
2,554
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Despite the aforementioned standpoints, there is no doubt that teachers are very important figures in society, and they should never be taken for granted and must be treated with absolute respect. Unfortunately, a large domestic issue in the United States is the amount of appeal of having a teacher career. Unlike in co...
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Evidence 2
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D1B06A3C02B3
1,618,862,008,296
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In many states. summer break is one of the only periods of time that teachers can be truly relieved of work, and that time should be maximized by reducing their tasks; if there is going to be schoolwork done during the summer, it is at the very least a moral ideal to relieve teachers of doing unnecessary work that coul...
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Claim 3
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D1B06A3C02B3
1,618,862,035,156
3,513
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Simply put, very few communities should expect to carry out teacher-designed summer projects with pleasing results. As promising as it may seem, it is apparent that teachers should not be given excess loads of responsibility of their students, and it is time to allow the students to take their own approaches to their t...
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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A2717785BE8D
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Some schools require students to complete summer projects during their break to assure that they are continuing to learn even when they are not in school. It is debated whether or not these projects should be student designed or teacher designed
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I believe that summer projects should be student designed.
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