Student and Teaching Directed Inquiry, Drill and Kill

I believe I will use student directed inquiry the most in my classroom. I feel like more teachers are moving away from teacher-directed inquiry and moving towards student-directed model. Instead of “giving” students knowledge, student centered inquiry provides students some of the tools or language they might need in order to discover their own knowledge. With student-centered inquiry, I would have students first start off with their prior knowledge of a topic, and then investigate by learning from each other and researching on the Internet or library on a topic I give them.

Since I ideally would like to be a third-grade teacher and I would definitely use the drill and kill method with students learning their multiplication tables and possibly use different software that has this method of learning in it. I am not a fan of drill and kill in other areas of learning, for it becomes repetitive and boring, but as far as math goes, there needs to be some form of drill and kill, but students need to understand the math, not just memorize it.