Guide to observe assignment and report
Assignment for observation:
1. Develop a clear understanding of the nature and purpose of drill and review methods
2. To acquaint the students with the proper technique in conducting drill and review activities
Habits are of great importance teaching and in learning. Through apply of the law of use or exercises
Laws of exercises is closely related with drill and review though have deference aims and function
Exercises fundamental law of growth
Drill is required it permanence in learning is desire
Review is use teaching to bring out points of relationship
Review is the organization and integration of facts. Information and skills in the light of the teaching procedure.
Class or grade__________section ___________date ______________________
Teacher____________________________observation ________________________
Go to a class where drill or review is conducting in preparation for a test or examination. Observe the drill or review work carefully and make a report based upon the following question:
1. ___________Was a drill work or review work properly motivated? Was the purpose of drill work or review work explained to the pupils?
2. __________If drill work was observe, were the drill period responses put under time pressure? Did the teacher encourage speed of response?
3. __________Do you think the length of the drill period was just about right , or do you think that it was rather too short, or too long?
4. __________If review work was observe, was the review work justified from educational point of view? Was the aim of the review accomplished?
5. __________Were facts associated, organized, established, and added to the pupil’s permanent store of knowledge?
6. ___________What are your comments and suggestion?
SUGGESTED EXERCISES FOR STUDY AND DISCUSSION
Indicate whether these sentences are true or false (verify):
1. __________Drill work is but the application of the law of exercise or use.
2. __________The principles of habits formation are to insure the right response in the future.
3. __________It is an accepted fact that habits are inherited traits.
4. __________According to the law of exercise, repetition weakens the mechanism responsible for response.
5. __________It is an accepted psychological principle that practice makes perfect.
6. __________Drill work is more efficient when practice is concentrated in one period.
7. __________Practice period should be arranged whenever a need for practice arises.
8. ________ In teaching, habit can utilized as a motive to learning.
9. __________Practice, to be values, should be applied at the point of error.
10. __________Mere repetition is sufficient to produce efficient learning.
11. __________Practice is less efficient when the purpose of the learner is known to him.
12. __________In drill work, well distributed practice produces effective results.
13. _________Habit formation is closely related to the law of exercise.
14. _________In drill, the emphasis must be on the repetition of correct work rather than on the correction of specific errors.
15. _________Habits can be formed or developed without reaction of some kind.
16. _________The longer the lengths the practice period, the better will the result be.
17. ________The law of disuse is the negative aspect of the law exercise.
18. _________Diagnosis should always precede and follow the drill method.
19. _________The acquisition of skills in arithmetic is matter of forming corrects habits.
20. _________The law of effect has a weak influence in the development of habits or skills.
21. _________In memorizing short material, the part method is superior to the whole method.
22. ________The kind of practice that’s makes perfect depends upon the number of repetition.
23. ________The fundamental aim of a review is to bring out points of relationship between the old and the new lesson.
24. ________Review work is effective when it involves a new meaning or of view point.
25. ________A review can be used to check up on the teacher and the pupils learning.
26. ________Drill and review have the same aims and functions.
27. ________The review is a mere repetition of the work that has been done before.
28. ________Review is a valuable aid to the securing of good teaching results.
29. ________A good review serves as a finishing touch to the teacher works.
30. ________The testing function of a review should be mainly incidental.
31. ________Review can be utilized to motivate the pupils to the future study.
32. ________Review is the organization and integration of experiences to give new view.
33. ________In review work, the emphasis is on the repetition of the old and correct responses’
34. ________The teacher should look upon review merely as an index of the pupils’ success or failure.
35. ________Review method, to be effective, must be use regularly by the teacher.
36. ________Review is necessary to insure and correct basis for correlation.
37. ________Subjects taught by units require the application of review technique.
38. ________It is generally accepted that review is a teaching procedure and not a testing device.
39. ________To make teaching more effective, review should be made a part of the teaching
40. ________Review applies more particularly to tool subjects who may be interpreting summarized, and organized.
