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Time is just as important as breathing everyday, and with having student-designed projects, students can gain these experiences at an early age; with replication, the success rate of younger adults will increase.
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doing the same activities every year such as: large research papers, extensive PowerPoint, and book reports can be repetitive; especially during summer vacation when both students and teachers alike get a break from the constant working. Students designing projects can prove beneficial; however, not only to the student...
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Not only with creativity, having the ability to relate to the student can be a opportunity to increase overall contribution of students in projects over the summer.
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communication is important and a staple point in our economy. Allowing students to design summer projects can put the basic skills of cooperation and socialization to use
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Understanding and accepting cooperation can place a person in a better position in life than someone who refuses to cooperate with others. And cooperation is needed life after high school examples such as: getting assistance on business, buying objects such as houses and a vehicle, working along side coworkers you don'...
Evidence
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It is often argued that having teachers to designate projects can be more beneficial than having students do the task. Certainly there are those who claim teachers are more experienced, well organized, and can provide more clarification on requirements for the task at hand.
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However, role reversal and having the students design the projects can result in more creative ideas, have individuality or unique portrayals of each separate idea, and a overall better interest in the project itself. As a result this side is more effective because you can gain more interactions within the targeted gro...
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As we have seen the argument of whether students or teachers should be designated to design projects runs on; having students design projects can be more of an improvement than a teacher. Simultaneously a teacher can gain more interest and interaction in the overall class, and boost the basic core skills of time manage...
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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Summer assignments are required by a multitude of schools accross the state of Virginia. But some school districts are considering breaking from the traditional teacher-designed summer projects and instead replacing them with projects designed by the students
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This may reflect student desires, however, it does not reflect what is best for the students education. Summer projects should be designed by teachers rather than students because it would be in the students own best interest.
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Summer projects are intended to be used as preparation for courses students are going to take in the upcoming school year
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Therefore, how could students be sure of what content should be emphasized; what ideas are the most important; and what materials, such as books and web sources, are the best? Furthermore, teachers will have a far greater knowledge of the courses at hand. Often times theachers will have particular material they want to...
Evidence
Evidence 1
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Some may claim that in order to have effective learning, students themselves must control the different components of their eductation.
Counterclaim
Counterclaim 1
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While this may be true for some aspects, such as selecting the courses they wish to take, this should not be the case for summer assignments. This is because many students may take advantage of an opportunity to design their own summer projects, by making them as quick and easy as possible. While this may allow student...
Rebuttal
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if teachers were to design summer assginments, they would be far more rigorous, but more importantly, they would be more beneficial for students for the upcoming school year.
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If student-designed projects are too easy, they end up simply becoming busy work. More difficult teacher-designed projects would challenge students, which may seem unappealing to many, however in order to grow academically, students need a stimulus to respond to. Moreover, students become stronger learners when they ar...
Evidence
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Although student-designed summer projects may appeal more to students, they will ultimately privide significantly less benefit to students' education, than teacher-designed projects would.
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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Most students in school are assigned summer projects so that they continue to learn over their two month summer break. Some of these projects can be dreadful and tedious, and others can be fun and exciting. The main goal of the projects is for students to continue learning over their summer break. Usually, when student...
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Summer assignments should be student-designed
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students know which projects are interesting
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they know how their peers learn and think,
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can help the students better learn from the assigned projects.
Evidence
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Summer projects should be student-designed because students know which projects other students will find interesting.
Claim
Claim 3
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If summer projects are boring and tedious, students won't want to learn anything. If they do things that are more fun and involving then they will definitely learn more and better, which is the entire purpose of assigning summer projects. When teachers assign projects, most of the time they aren't as fun because the t...
Evidence
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Another reason why students should design summer assignments is because students know how their peers think and learn whilst on break, which also leads back to interesting projects the students will design
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When students design the projects they think of what their classmates find interesting and it can be easier for them because they are students themselves. In other words, because they are students themselves, they know which projects to assign because they will find them interesting. Sometimes when teachers design pro...
Evidence
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Some say that teacher-designed projects are the best because the teachers know what the students need to learn, especially for the coming year.
Counterclaim
Counterclaim 1
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Even though this may be partly true, the teachers can easily let the students, who are designing the projects, know what the students should learn from the projects and go from there. Students will have a better clue on what the projects need to be about and can make it interesting for the students, so that they conti...
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student-designed projects are much better for students to continue learning over the summer break. Students will better learn the important information if the projects are interesting and well thought out, which the students know how to do. Students should also design the experiments because they know which projects ar...
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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Many schools incorporate summer learning into their students' curriculum to have them maintain knowledge gained throughout the school year. Although these projects are thought to be beneficial for students, the topics and activities given by teachers are often strenuous, and frankly, uninteresting to students, especial...
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Summer projects assigned to kids should be allowed to be student designed
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to fit the student's interests
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keep the child engaged
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to promote responsibility when constructing a project.
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As a child grows, so do their interests and beliefs
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Allowing student designed projects means letting them take control and organizing their own thoughts in which they see fit.
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Students must be taught responsibility, and by allowing them to create their own rubrics, guidelines, and ideas, it promotes creativity and a sense of control in a child's mind.
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Claim 5
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By allowing this flexibility of guidelines and rules, kids can stretch their ideas further without having to feel they have gone off-topic because it will be designed by them.
Evidence
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Although some might claim that teacher designed summer projects are more structured and educational for students
Counterclaim
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this is a flawed argument because most assignments given by teachers are strict and are only focused on a certain topic that not every student will take interest in. It's also important to give students a chance to be creative with their own guidelines and requirements, something that is restricted when a rubric design...
Rebuttal
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schools should begin leaning more towards student designed summer assignments because of the immense freedom that is given and the responsibility that is required of students to create their own projects. It is important that from a young age, kids are able to write, discuss, and learn more about topics they are passio...
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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Summer and projects are two words that dont go well together especially for some students. Summer is a season to be enjoyed by many no one is in school and a lot of people are out on beaches or vacationing and having a good time. However, some teachers assign projects during summer and some hate it and most rarely do s...
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Summer projects should be more student designed
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they are more creative
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they have more ideas
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it makes them a better thinker.
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One reason projects should be student- designed is because they are more creative.
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Many projects that are offered in education systems are always one sided or the same. Many teens during school tend to do projects but they think its boring what the teacher assigned them. They need to be more creative. They could use different colors or different things to make it their own way. For example, a stude...
Evidence
Evidence 1
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While some may say that being creative cant get you anywhere
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those type of people would be wrong. Many famous celebrities and scientists got to where they are or were because they had to be creative to reach that high. Furthermore, being creative on school projects makes one different and unique and many teens today should do that.
Rebuttal
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they have more ideas.
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With many projects assigned they are usually being given a specific thing they have to work on. Many teens, however, dont want to do just one thing they want to be expressive and show how many ideas they really have. During class a teacher assigned a project that any students disagreed on, and many told the teacher tha...
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it makes students a better thinker.
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In today's schools many teens are tired and sleepy. When adults or others assign them something like a project or anything thing really, many complain that they are boring or dumb. When it comes to doing projects students have a hard time doing them. Mostly because they dont like what they are doing or because they sim...
Evidence
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Many school or summer projects should be a student- designed because they are more creative, they have more ideas and it also makes them a better thinker. Students and even teachers have the ability to choose what they want to do and no one can stop them from doing it. Some students may be scared to choose their own p...
Concluding Statement
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At a lot of schools summer projects are not given, but at some they are and they are given vigorously. If over the summer projects are given, they should be student-designed for many reasons. First off, letting a teacher decide what the students will do over summer will not only make the kids mad, it will also cause th...
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If the school allows the children to pick their topic, they will be more engaged because they are creating their own work from the bottom up. This will be more fun for the students and they will be more likely to complete the project. Summer projects should be student-designed
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to be fair to the kids,
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to make it more fun for the students
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to also further engage children with their work.
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that is the only way that it will be fair to the students
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Kids will be able to choose what they want and start their own creation from scratch. Giving the students the same topic by the teacher will put some at a disadvantage. Some are not likely to complete the assignment because they do not want to do the topic assigned, and some will also not be comfortable with competing ...
Evidence
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The students should be able to pick a fun topic of their choice, and not a rigorous topic that their professor assigns. This causes the students to be able to pick a more personal or relatable topic to them, that they then will want to complete. Letting children choose their topics will also assure that each project is...
Evidence
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when the students are allowed to pick their own topic, they will be more engaged with their work.
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There will be more diversity and intensity among the work, A student will want to complete their work, because it actually means something and can be personal or emotional to them. Assigning the sudents a project based off of what the teacher wants is not smart. The professor should be able to come up with what the cri...
Evidence
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letting students pick the topic of their summer projects will have many benefits for the students and even the teachers. It will be more fun to the students and teachers. The students are able to let their minds explore and they are able to be engaged with the work that they have created. It will also be fun for the t...
Concluding Statement
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Most students, strongly dislike summer assignments, because when school is over we want to relax and enjoy our time off. But, what we don't realize is that these summer projects can be very helpful in the future. Once we go back to school, and as we get older and closer to graduate we try taking difficult and more adva...
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I believe that these projects should be teacher-designed
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the teachers already know what the standards are in that class, and what objectives you need to be familiar with before coming into that class
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if a student were to design the summer projects, they might make it easy for their fellow peers and not work at their full potential.
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they know what can benefit you as a student and want to see you succeed as much as possible.
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One reason why I think teachers should design the summer projects is that the teachers already learned the subjects they are teaching. So, they could create a summer project that could help the students understand the material the teachers struggled with learning when they were once students. Another reason why I think...
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If the summer projects were designed by the students I feel like the students wouldn't make it as challenging as the teachers would.
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I feel like the students wouldn't work to their full potential since they know the teacher didn't design the project. As a student, I think that sometimes we try to find an easy way out to complete an assignment and I think that the students would make the project not as challenging and in the future that could affect ...
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I think that the teachers should be the ones to design the summer projects because they have the experience and the students could ask them questions if they need to involving the project. The students would defiantly benefit from the teachers designing the project because it would give them an idea on how the class wo...
Concluding Statement
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On the other hand, if the students were to design the summer projects they wouldn't know what topics to include,
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unlike the teachers that have had experiences with other kids completing their assignments in the past.
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For most students, summer is a time of freedom and relaxation; unless, of course, they're given a teacher-designed summer project. As a young learner, I can tell you truthfully that being assigned a summer project is absolutely heart-wrenching. Imagine enjoying your amazing summer and you realize half way through it th...
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the stress that comes with them can be avoided if the assignments were student-designed.
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the work can be personalized to improve the learners' problem areas
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fit into their summer plans.
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Students know what they struggled with while school was in session; they were in those classrooms learning it and trying to understand it the best they could all year.
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they have the ability and information to design a summer project that allows them to learn and improve in whatever topic they had trouble with by putting it together in sections.
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As I said before, summer is a time of freedom and relaxation; however, us young ones have to keep learning or else we'd lose our scholar touch. So, the student-designed summer project could be broken up by months
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this is an acceptable way to help learners keep track of their summer work because not only does it allow them to set aside free time for their break, it also helps them make a reserved time for assignments.
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Opponents may claim that because they don't want to work over summer, the young learners will make it ridiculously easy for themselves so they can have a relaxing break.
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This is a valid point, however, us students just want to improve ourselves. It can be embarrassing to lack understanding of what's going on in the classroom; it can also make students feel like failures, or even feel stupid. I know from personal experience that school leaves majority of the kids feeling like the most i...
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students know what is needed for them to thrive in their academics and they're willing to have open arms to allow that to happen. With the assignments being by students, for students, they are designed specifically to help them achieve the hardships of assignments and to come back to school with their brains running, i...
Concluding Statement
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Some schools have these dreadful summer projects that students don't really enjoy to do. However, it's required in most schools, regardless if it's a reading assignment or a history assignment. The school system just wants us to keep our brains going during the break. Now here comes the big question of the day, should ...
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I feel that it should be teacher-designed and student based.
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students would be eager to do them
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have a good challenge on their hands.
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Nevertheless it should be fun and educational.
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Students count down until summer break and not just in '' Highschool Musical'' either they can't wait to hangout with their friends, be out all night, and not have to wake up for school. Students know it's always that boring assignment that they have to complete over summer , which they wait the last minute to do.
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Some people might not agree and say an assignment is an assignment it has to get done regardless.
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However I myself am a student and I know once students get an assignment that they are eager to do your probably going to get their best work yet.
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I know I do, and so does my peers. Students love an interesting challenge that will have them using their brains. The whole purpose of the summer project is to assure that students learn over the summer. What a better way to do it then by finding out what interest the students and challenge them to lean more about it ,...
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I understand that theres going to be an assignment due at the beginning of each school year. However, if it is teacher-designed and student based schools will have an outstanding out come because the more the students are eager to learn , the challenges get harder, and the harder it gets .The more students learn how to...
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Many students across the country can relate to the struggle of returning to school at the end of summer and attempting to complete a review packet, only to realize that, over summer break, they had forgotten what they learned. To prevent his from occurring, schools have began to assign summer work to students. Some sch...
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These summer projects should be student-designed
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