text: Along with helping teachers discover what each students strengths are, having student-designed project also allows teachers to see what a student still needs help with. Generic_Name AP bio teacher Mrs. Generic_Name said that for the students summer project they can do anything using all the information they learned the previous year. On the first day of school Mrs. Generic_Name saw that Generic_Name still needed help with learning about the cell cycle. If Mrs. Generic_Name would have a assigned a specific project for all the students she would have not found out that Generic_Name was really struggling with the cell cycle, which would have put him even farther behind in the class. The tenth grade math department allowed their students to make the summer project for the rising tenth graders. By having the students make the summer project it ensures that only critical information is getting reviewed, and if the student does not know something it alerts the teacher that in the beginning of the year they need to review the material. Also by taking the summer project out of the teachers hands it also helps teachers figure out what they need to help students with, because with many years of teaching, teachers often forget what students need help with. With the freedom of having a student designed project it really helps the teachers out by picking out the students weaknesses and helping them focus on improvement.