Sunday, August 14, 2011

Contextual Learning

Contextual learning - Contextual teaching and learning is a learning strategy that emphasizes the process of student involvement in full to be able to find material that is learned and relate it to real life situations that encourage students to be able to apply it in their lives. For that there are some records in the application of CTL as a learning strategy, including:

Contextual learning strategy is a model of learning that emphasizes student activity fully, both physically and mentally.

The strategy considers that contextual learning is not rote learning but the process is experienced in real life.
Class CTL in learning rather than as a place to get information, but as a place to test their findings on data from the field.


Subject matter found by the students themselves rather than giving the results of others.

From the above there are some things that need to be understood about the CTL, the first contextual learning strategies emphasize the process of student engagement to find material, meaning that the learning process oriented towards the process of direct experience. The learning process in this context does not expect that students only receive a lesson, but the process of searching for and finding his own subject matter.

Second, CTL encourages students can find a relationship between the material learned to real life situations, meaning that students are required to be able to capture the relationship between learning experiences in school to real life.

Third, CTL encourages students to be able to apply it in life, meaning that CTL not only expects students to understand the material learned, but how the subject matter that can color their behavior in everyday life. CTL in the context of the subject matter is not to be stacked in the brain and then forgotten, but as a preparation of students as it navigates the real life. Contextual Learning
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