drill and kill
Repetitive practice method
Drill and kill is an informal, usually disparaging term for teaching methods that rely heavily on repetitive practice and memorization rather than creative thinking or deeper understanding.
The phrase suggests that while drilling might produce short-term results on tests, it kills students' curiosity and love of learning.
Critics say the new curriculum is just drill and kill dressed up with technology.
The term appears most often in debates about standardized testing and rote learning in schools.
- boredomWeary disinterest from monotony
- repetitionAct of redoing
- memorizationCommitting information to recall
- times tablesMemorized arithmetic products
- exerciseActivity for fitness
automaticity · practice · monotony · worksheets · fill in the blank · rote learning · tedium · procedural memory · pedagogy · plug and chug · back to basics · rut · flashcards · education · review · recall · constructivism · cramming
drill and killdiscovery learning
Teaching through self-directed exploration
creative learning · hands-on learning · Socratic method · progressive education · Montessori method
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