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What is Drill and Practice?
Drill and practice is an instructional strategy that uses educational tools to reinforce learning through repetition. It involves students practicing skills or concepts repeatedly to build proficiency and automaticity.
This method is particularly effective for:
1. Mastering Basic Skills: Like math facts, spelling, or grammar rules.
2. Reinforcing Memory: Helping students retain information over time.
3. Building Speed and Accuracy: Especially in tasks that benefit from quick recall (e.g., math drills).
In a classroom setting, it often takes the form of worksheets, flashcards, or digital tools that provide instant feedback. While it is useful for building foundational skills, it may not engage higher-order thinking unless combined with other instructional strategies.
Advantages:
1. Instantaneous Feedback, Immediate Feedback: Students often receive instant feedback, allowing them to correct mistakes and refine their understanding.
2. Time-saving, Structured, and Clear: It provides a clear, focused way to practice specific skills in a controlled environment.
3. Improves Automaticity: Repetition helps students internalize basic skills, leading to faster and more accurate performance (e.g., math facts, spelling).
4. Boosts Retention: Regular Practice reinforces long-term memory, which is particularly effective for information that needs to be recalled frequently.
5. Builds Confidence: Mastering foundational skills through practice can increase students' confidence as they see their progress over time.
Disadvantages:
1. Teaches lessons in isolation
2. May not promote long-term retention of content/material (Students may memorize material, but not gain fluency)
3. Limited Critical Thinking: It focuses on rote memorization and skill repetition rather than encouraging deep understanding or problem-solving.
4. Lack of Engagement: Drill and practice can become monotonous or boring for students, potentially reducing motivation and interest in the subject.
5. Minimal Real-World Application: The isolated practice of skills may not help students apply those skills in real-life or complex situations.
6. One-Size-Fits-All Approach: It may not cater to different learning styles, as some students may require more hands-on, exploratory, or conceptual learning methods.
7. Potential for Overemphasis: Too much focus on drills can limit the time spent on other instructional strategies that promote higher-order thinking and creativity.
Chalea's Technologies
Chalea's Technologies
1. Edpuzzle (Zellner): Description: A platform that allows teachers to embed interactive questions, notes, and assessments into videos.
Edpuzzle Getting Started with "EdPuzzle" Tutorial
Use in Teaching Strategies: Edpuzzle works well with flipped classrooms and blended learning by enabling teachers to assign interactive video lessons for students to complete at home. This technology promotes active engagement with content, providing instant feedback as students answer questions during video playbacks.
2. Reflex Math (Zellner) - Description: An adaptive, game-based system that focuses on math fact fluency, helping students master addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Effective Math Fact Fluency Solution | Reflex (explorelearning.com) Reflex Math Tutorial
Use in Teaching Strategies: Reflex Math enhances drill and practice by combining repetition with engaging games that help students build speed and accuracy with math facts. Teachers can monitor individual progress and assign more practice where needed, making it effective for skill reinforcement.
3. Prodigy (Zellner) - Description: A math-based game that combines adventure-based gameplay with curriculum-aligned math problems.
Student Login | Prodigy Education (prodigygame.com) Prodigy Teachers | How to use assignments
Use in Teaching Strategies: Prodigy works well with gamification and drill and practice strategies, offering students a fun way to practice math skills while advancing through game levels. Teachers can assign specific skills for students to focus on and track their progress through game reports.
4. Spelling City (Zellner) - Description: A platform focused on spelling, vocabulary, and phonics practice through games and activities.
Vocabulary Words - Spelling Practice - Phonics Games for Kids (spellingcity.com) Setting up Spelling City for the first time
Use in Teaching Strategies: Spelling City supports drill and practice by providing a variety of interactive games that help students repeatedly practice spelling and vocabulary words. It’s highly effective for rote learning of spelling and vocabulary through fun, repetitive activities. These technologies engage students in repetitive practice while keeping the experience fun, interactive, and personalized. They offer immediate feedback and adaptive learning paths, which are essential components of effective drill and practice strategies.
5. Boom Learning (Zellner) - Description: A platform that offers interactive, self-correcting digital task cards (Boom Cards) for a variety of subjects.
Boom Learning | Empowering teachers and students Boom Learning Tutorial for Beginners | SUPER EASY!!!!!!!
Use in Teaching Strategies: Boom Learning is excellent for drill and practice because the digital task cards offer repeated, structured practice in a fun and interactive way. Teachers can create or find pre-made cards and assign them to students for repeated drills, while the system tracks progress and performance.
Jill's Technologies
Jill's Technologies
1. Quizlet (Frank-Styron)
Quizlet can be used to create digital flashcards for classes. Students can also create their own flashcards. Students can use the cards to practice the course content and review for tests or practice for mastery.
How to Use Quizlet--Official Tutorial for New Users
2. Quia (Frank-Styron)
Quia allows you to create practice activities and quizzes. There are also activities created by other teachers that you can edit for your class. The activities can be used for review and practice.
3. IXL (Frank-Styron)
IXL allows students to take pretests for placement in math, language arts, social studies, science, and Spanish. Teachers can also assign specific learning skills for students to practice. Students practice the skill until they attain a mastery score (typically selected by the teacher). Students practice the skill to demonstrate mastery.
IXL for Teachers--Make a Bigger Impact
4. Kahoot! (Frank-Styron)
Kahoot! allows teachers to create trivia style quizzes. The quizzes can become interactive classroom games that create competition in the classroom. Teachers can use Kahoot! for daily practice to build skills. It can also be used to review material before tests.
How to Use Kahoot! for Schools--Intro Guide
5. Multiplication Memorizer (Frank-Styron)
Multiplication Memorizer is an app from the Google Play store. It lists the multiplication facts and allows students to practice multiplication facts. It provides interactive drill activities for students to work on to practice mastery of multiplication facts. The app features various practice areas to improve mastery and for practice and drill of multiplication facts.
Lauren's Technologies
Lauren's Technologies
Kuta Software (Harris)
Kuta Software provides educational tools that make learning and teaching math easier with customizable worksheets and interactive resources. Users can generate worksheets for various math topics, choose different problem types, and adjust difficulty levels.
How to video showing using Kuta Software! kutasoftware.com
Get More Math (Harris)
Get More Math is an online tool for practicing math. It offers interactive exercises tailored to different skill levels, provides instant feedback, and tracks progress. Users can select topics to focus on, and teachers can monitor student performance and adjust assignments as needed.
Khan Academy (Harris)
Offers a wide range of practice exercises and instructional videos for various subjects and grade levels. It also provides instruction in various languages to help ESL students.
XtraMath (Harris)
Focuses on helping students develop quick recall of basic math facts through brief, focused practice sessions. It focuses on practicing addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division through a series of short, timed exercises.
GoFormative (Harris)
GoFormative is an online tool that lets teachers create interactive quizzes and assignments. It provides instant feedback to students and real-time insights to teachers, helping to track progress and improve learning.
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Lim, C.S., Tang, K.N., Kor, L.K. (2012). Drill and Practice in Learning (and Beyond). In:
Seel, N.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_706
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