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to increase student interest and motivation while they work on this mandatory project
Claim
Claim 1
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to teach students how to be independent researchers,
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allowing them to continue learning during their break and providing them with the ability to pursue the topic if desired.
Evidence
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If a student had the ability to design their own summer projects, it would not only increase the student's rate of productivity, it would also increase the quality of the results. In addition, a student's desire in researching their topic will allow them to retain this knowledge and continue learning during their break...
Evidence
Evidence 2
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Students would find summer projects more enjoyable if they had the ability to design their project and chose their topic. This would, in turn, increase the students' motivation and desire to conduct the project.
Claim
Claim 3
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the more time and energy that a student puts into their project, the better the overall quality of the project and of the results. This would occur if a student had the desire to do the project, which stems from the student's interest in the project. For example, many students across the United States complete an in-s...
Evidence
Evidence 3
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Allowing students to design their own projects teaches them how to be independent researchers and promotes creativity by forcing students to plan procedures for a project
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Claim 4
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When teachers design projects for students, they include everything: topic, materials, time line, and procedure. The student rarely has to conduct any planning before completing the project. This takes away the research and the independence aspect of a project. The teachers babies the students through the process and f...
Evidence
Evidence 4
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Few may argue that students cannot be trusted in designing a project that is relevant to the curriculum and that allows for students to learn at the same time. Furthermore, students may be inclined to design a project that is too simple for them.
Counterclaim
Counterclaim 1
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This may easily be countered by the teacher. Just because students would be able to design their projects, doesn't mean that the teacher doesn't oversee their actions.
Rebuttal
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Traditionally, when students are given an in-class assignment to design their own projects, their ideas must be approved by a teacher. The teacher also provides the students with guidelines to center their project topic around. This process would be the same for a summer assignment. Before school lets out, students wou...
Evidence
Evidence 5
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Few may also argue that allowing the students to design their summer projects would result in mad time management since students would also control when certain tasks may need to be completed.
Counterclaim
Counterclaim 2
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Teachers also have the ability to counter this by providing a calender for when certain parts of the project need to be turned in. One teacher would assign a summer project with the same guidelines for a whole class, which allows for the projects to have fairly similar requirements.
Rebuttal
Rebuttal 2
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This makes it easy for a teacher to create certain turn-in dates throughout the summer. Implementing turn-in dates would decrease the students' ability to procrastinate and forces them to manage their time wisely.
Evidence
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Summer-projects are an excellent way for students to continue to learn over break while enjoying themselves. They are also a variation in school work as they provide more freedom and flexibility than in-class work. Consequentially, summer projects should be student-designed to increase student interest and motivation i...
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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Most students do not like homework over the summer, so it can be difficult to get students to do the work. Many schools just give students a generalized project to keep their brains working. If you got students involved in the choice of their homework, they would be more likely to really work their brains on it.
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Schools that require projects over the summer should be student designed
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it will increase enthusiasm and expand variety
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students will go into more detail
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cheating will be decreased.
Claim
Claim 3
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if schools made summer projects student designed, it would increase enthusiasm and expand the variety from the students.
Claim
Claim 4
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Generic_Name who loves outer space is more likely to put effort and research into a project about space than he or she would about the water cycle. Each student has their own interests, and the best way to reach the minds of all students is to let them design their own project. The originality of the students should no...
Evidence
Evidence 1
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student designed projects would improve the likelihood of students going into more detail.
Claim
Claim 5
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Students want the opportunity to expand their knowledge in topics that interest them. Why not let them teach themselves and you something along the way? Students doing a project on something that doesn't interest them would be a vague and boring version of something that could be chosen by the student. In the science f...
Evidence
Evidence 2
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student designed projects would decrease the level of cheating.
Claim
Claim 6
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Student designed projects wouldn't allow for the same cheating as teacher designed projects because the ideas would have to come originally from the researcher. You might think student design versus teacher design has nothing to do with cheating, but there are many reasons as to why this is a component. Say you are a b...
Evidence
Evidence 3
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Schools should have student designed summer projects because enthusiasm and variety increase, there will be more details on the projects, and cheating is less likely to happen. Students want to have fun over their summer with as little stress as possible. Giving students the chance to design their own projects would no...
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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BOO! BOO! Cried the Generic_School students when they found out they have to complete a summer project over break in order to assure they do not forget all of the material they have learned over the school year. However, what these students do not know is that they are not the only students that have to complete this p...
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Letting students design their summer projects could be an extravagant opportunity because students would have an opportunity to be creative
Counterclaim
Counterclaim 1
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teachers should be in charge of the summer projects
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teachers have more knowledge on their subject than the students
Claim
Claim 1
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more experience with lesson planning
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Claim 2
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can also construct projects that can be fun and enjoyable for students.
Claim
Claim 3
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For example, by the end of the school year many students have already forgot most of what they have learned over the past school year. On the other hand, teachers teach their subject material over and over again for years at a time. Teachers know their subject like the back of their hands, where as, students are just ...
Evidence
Evidence 1
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The job of a teacher is to come up with different lesson plans and strategies for their students to assure they obtain all the information they need. Students are not educated on how to teach other students. Students may be able to come up with a summer project but between the students and the teachers the teachers wou...
Evidence
Evidence 2
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Although there may be a selective group of teachers who typically would not have hands on and enjoyable projects, majority of teachers could construct a fun summer project for students. Whether the project is to visit a certain historical figure and take notes or to raise awareness for any person in need. Some teachers...
Evidence
Evidence 3
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summer projects should be designed by teachers because teachers are more knowledgeable than students about their subject, they have effective lesson planning strategies for students, and have the ability to make any project enjoyable for students. There is nothing wrong with assigning students summer projects to make s...
Concluding Statement
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Summer is a sweet, warm time full of pool parties, ice cream trucks, and forgetting what it feels like to be in school. Although it is a lovely break, it often poses problems for both students and teachers when the students come back to school unprepared. This is why the practice of assigning summer projects has become...
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It is very clear that the teachers should be designing summer projects
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Position 1
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they can prepare their students for their future classes
Claim
Claim 1
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if students were to design their own projects, there would be severe issues.
Claim
Claim 2
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Teachers should design summer projects because they can prepare their students for their future classes.
Claim
Claim 3
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Although the students do not know the exact route that their education is going to take, teachers often have a very good idea. Teachers know what their students need to work on, and may be able to assign projects geared towards particular students to help them succeed in the future. This could be significantly more ben...
Evidence
Evidence 1
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Teachers should certainly design summer projects because if students were to design them, there would be significant issues
Claim
Claim 4
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One problem posed by students designing their own summer projects would be that students might design projects unrelated to what they are doing at school. This would not harm their education, but it would certainly be a waste of time and energy if students were to arbitrarily choose their project and dedicate time and...
Evidence
Evidence 2
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Although they may concede some of my points, supporters of students designing their own summer projects might argue that if the teachers were to design the summer projects of students, then the students would likely care little for the topic chosen and put little effort into their projects. They would argue that studen...
Counterclaim
Counterclaim 1
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Although this argument has its merits, it is flawed; teachers realize that students do not put effort into projects that they are not invested in, so teachers have methods of getting students to become invested in their projects.
Rebuttal
Rebuttal 1
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One method to encourage students to put effort into their summer projects is that teachers will design the framework of a project, but let the students individualize it and research what interests them. Another method of encouraging students to give effort is making their summer projects a school grade for the next yea...
Evidence
Evidence 3
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The education of the young is important to society, and it must not be interrupted or stopped. Summer assignments are essential in keeping this continuity, and it is essential that people are interested in the education they are being given. However, letting the disinterested choose what their education consists of und...
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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Summers can be the best times of a students life. They get a break from the stress and anxiety of school and they are allowed to do any and all things they wish to do within the legal limits. Summer projects are designed to keep students engaged and learning. This can be a very good thing as long as the project is base...
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If they want the projects to be successful they must set a broad topic and allow the students to chose anything they want under that umbrella topic.
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Students will enjoy doing a project about a certain YouTube creator they have fun watching, a sports team they love, or even their favorite book they read during school or over summer break. These projects should not be based around a Shakespeare play that they struggle to even read let alone comprehend. Summer project...
Evidence
Evidence 1
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Learning is very important and having the project is a good idea. The students must be able to choose exactly what they want to do.
Evidence
Evidence 2
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This will keep them interested in the project which will make all the grades of the projects go up compared to if it was a topic they have no interest in.
Claim
Claim 1
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The students will use more of their time to perfect the project instead of waiting until the last weekend and just turning it in because they do not care about the topic and do not want to waste their time on something that has no impact on their future as soon as they finish the next test they have on the topic. Allow...
Evidence
Evidence 3
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Projects picked by a student may even result in more knowledge being gained than a teacher assigned project.
Claim
Claim 2
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Students could focus on a sports team and how they network their team to different audiences in different ways. For example, mascots are normally focused on the younger audience. Teams almost always have a promotion for the first certain number of people that arrive. The first one thousand people to go through the sec...
Evidence
Evidence 4
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Having a teacher assigned project does have an upside
Counterclaim
Counterclaim 1
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This will give the students structure and something to base their project on instead of having all the options in the world and not being able to choose one. In school, students are normally more prepared if it is a topic they have been learning about and have background knowledge on compared to a project half way thr...
Evidence
Evidence 5
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A student lead project during the summer is a great thing it keeps the mind or a student engaged with out boring them. Students can research any and all topics they would like so that they enjoy keeping their brain working and focused on bettering themselves. Teacher based projects will give the students structure but ...
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Although in theory a student-designed project sound good, in practice the students will most likely struggle to make the project because of lack of understanding the project.
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a teacher-designed project would be beneficial
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it would be more thought out
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leave a clear outline of what to do in the project and have more structure then say a student designed project.
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When you're a teenager you want to be free as possible but sometimes you are too free, that you don't know what to do with this much freedom so you do nothing.
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In this sense the project that would be designed by a student most student would have no idea where to start discouraging them for even commencing the project and of course there will be people that can do the project easily but we want to make the project fair and equal for everybody.
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a teacher-designed project would be the best option for this summer project because it would let the teacher outline certain thing they want in the project to ensure that the students are still learning over the summer break.
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Over the summer students tend to forget a vast amount of valuable information they learn during their education. To fix that issue most schools assign summer projects to students every year. These projects assure that students retain the information they learned in school and possibly learn more over the long three mon...
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Summer projects should be teacher-designed
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teachers have more knowledge
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teachers know how to creating projects.
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summer projects should be created by teachers because of how much information they know.
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In order to teach students, it is common knowledge that an educator has to know more than the learners. The summer project is meant to not only help students retain information, but also to learn more, and teachers are easily capable of adding that needed information. If there is a greater amount of information on the ...
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teachers should design summer projects because they know how to create projects better than any student.
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Teachers learn how to teach and create projects for their students before they can even start educating them. This means that most teachers have experience with creating projects already and that making a summer project would be an easy task. Students have no background in creating projects because they are always the ...
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On the other hand, some people do believe student-designed summer projects would be more beneficial. This is because it could teach a student how to be responsible or learn on their own.
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However, many students today are extreme procrastinators and because of that their work would likely be average or below average. Teacher-designed projects are better because there would be a system that students can use to understand information better. If students were in charge it would become a jumbled messy puzzle...
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summer projects are better off being created by teachers because teachers are more knowledgeable and know how to create projects better than any student. Teacher-designed summer projects are extremely beneficial for students. New information learned from these projects provided by teachers can help students be prepared...
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Everytime students hear the word school they all have a similar reaction: "why school." This reaction is due to the rigor of work school puts on students' backs and the repetition of constant learning. In order to give students time away, they are given three months of summer break which spans from June - August. Durin...
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The summer projects should be designed specifically by students
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they will be able to acquire knowledge in a way that interests them
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express their ideas without being limited by a teacher,
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on the other hand teacher-designed projects would be beneficial to students because the content created by teachers is consistent with the content learned during the school year.
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Summer projects should be designed by students because they will be able to acquire knowledge in a way that interests them
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Being able to do something which one is passionate about results in the best work that he/she can produce, this is because learning is driven by motivation. When a teacher assigns something for the student to do, he/she does not have an eagerness to learn because of the fact that it is something they don't have a stron...
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Not only does students designing their own projects give them a opportunity to pursue their interest, but it also gives them ability to express their ideas in a fashion which they are not pressured and limited by others.
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Students become boxed in boundaries due to the pressure of doing things a certain way and learning the way teachers tell them to. When students can design projects and learn in a way they believe is beneficial, learning becomes less of pressured task and more of a way to explore one's horizon. One thing students strugg...
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In contrast to student-designed projects, teacher designed projects also have a positive impact on students because of their ability to create content which is consistent with the content students learn during the school year. Thinking outside the box and being able to express ideas is very important, however, without ...
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Summer projects should be student-designed because students will be able to learn in a way which interests them and express their ideas without limitations and pressure by a teacher, on the other hand, teacher-designed projects would be beneficial to students because the content created by teachers is consistent with t...
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Every year from 6th grade to 12th grade year students have to do a summer project and turn it in to their teachers in their next upcoming school year. Due to al the mixed feelings about the project there's been a debate about whether it should be student-designed or teacher-designed
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Summer projects should be designed by teachers
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the teachers will ensure the student will learn and grow
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they'll set the proper criterias for it.
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Teachers know what students need to learn and usually what they will be learning in their next school year
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With this knowledge teachers can determine how the projects should be structured to help benifit the students and make them grow.
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If somebody wants to learn something they need certain criterias to help them actually learn.
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A person can't learn something from something they already learned and know. The same thing can be applied to summer projects a student can't learn something new from something easy and that they already know. They need certain criterias, restrictions, rules on stuff to ensure they will learn. Teachers can ensure that ...
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Some people think students should design it because it would be a lot more funner for them, get them more engaged, and make them a lot more enthusiastic about it when given the chance to design it.
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It's good to have the students enthusiastic and engaged but it's not ensured whether they will learn something or not. The chance of a student designing a project that won't help them learn much is not beneficial and defeats the purpose of the summer projects. It's a teachers's job to make sure that students are learni...
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Teachers are way more educated that students are. So they can make the best projects that can benefit the students the most compared to the students designing it. They know what to do, what to look for, and what's best for school. They are more trained,equiped, and have more knowledge to do it. So teachers should be de...
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