Projects play significant roles in the life of the students. Often, they are required by the teacher at the end of a grading period or a unit if necessary. The very purpose why teachers require students to come up with such is to basically measure or evaluate students' understanding about the topic that has been recently discussed. Some of the benefits that projects can incorporate to students are: enhacing students social skills or the way they interact with other people by means of group work or projects done inside and outside the school, develop their ability to think logically and rationally in every situation, practice their freedom in making decisions, establish their ability in solving problems, and develop their sense of leadership. These are just some of the benefits that students can get in doing their projects; there are actually alot of them. The corresponding benefits that students get depends on the purpose of the teacher why he/she required his/her students to come up with a project. It also depends on how the project should be done. But what is more important,that make up all these benefits is the experience that they may get before,while, and after doing the project. The experiences accorded to them shall speak to themselves whether they futher learned something out of the given task, or nothing was gained at all. Then their outputs shall be the basis for the teacher to come up with a proper judgement; whether the students learned from the recent lesson or not.
It is just so sad that some students or sometimes even parents, get to mistake projects as means of compensation to students' lack of academic competence. There are instances where parents of students failing in certain subjects get to ask the teacher "what projects can their children possibly submit in order to pass? This is definitely a wrong notion that we have to erase into our mindset because nothing can ever become a better compensation to lack of academic competence than to study hard, take our studies seriously, and at the same time, enjoy it.
