text: Teacher designed projects are more beneificial to a childs academic development because they have the ability to tailor projects in a way that will prepare students for the next step in their academic career. Teachers posses the unique ability and experience that provides them with the ability to introduce concepts to students through summer projects that they will need to be familiar with for their future classes. For example, in the summer prior to my sophmore year I was told to write a research paper on John Locke. This research paper introduced me to a person I had never heard of before which inturn better prepred me for my Humane letters class which discussed a variety of his ideas.