Sentence examples for classroom drill from inspiring English sources

Earlier this month, an 18-year-old born in Veracruz, Mexico, who has studied English at Fort Lupton High for four years, stumbled repeatedly in a classroom drill on the idiomatic uses of "the".

After years of classroom drills, she passed the high school exam required for graduation on her first try.

Citing the College Board's Advanced Placement tests as a model, he said he aims to have a test that requires students to demonstrate the skills that good classroom teachers drill them on to reach academic excellence.

Kindergarten students lie on the floor during a classroom lockdown drill in Oahu, Hawaii.

Yet it is this kind of exploration that aims to produce teachers who are more than classroom mechanics drilled in the art of standing still while giving instructions and waiting the appropriate number of beats after asking a question.

Randi Weingarten, president of the city teachers' union, said yesterday that while she was happy with the improved scores, she was starting to worry that students were spending too much classroom time drilling for standardized tests.

Instead of the lessons that generally come in a classroom through drills and testing, he said, the institutions can spread behavioral messages about topics like the value of health, exercise and nutrition at an early age through "the 'aha!' experience" -- and "most of these 'aha!' experiences' do happen outside of school," he said.

It has classrooms and a drill room that could be used as a gymnasium.

Yet we have been slow to get going in the area of edtech (education technology), where start-ups are focused on improving classroom learning and drilling into test results.

In Mr. Rendon's classroom in Riverdale, test drills are preceded by breathing exercises and "modified yoga" poses.

Meanwhile, in the day-to-day classroom, it has been drilled into these students that solid junior-year grades are vital for getting into a good college, and they feel this pressure daily, test by test, paper by paper.