Contextua Teaching Learning

Contextual Teaching Learning

CTL is a concept of learning where teachers bring real-world situations into the classroom and encourage students to make connections between the knowledge he has with the application in their lives as members of families and communities. With this concept, the learning outcomes expected to be more meaningful for students. The learning process takes place more naturally in the form of student activities and work experience, not a transfer of knowledge from teacher to student.

Learning Strategies CTL

Some instructional strategies need to be developed by the teacher contextual include:

a. Problem-based learning

By bringing up the problems faced together, students are challenged to think critically to solve.

b. Using a variety of contexts

In the context of CTL brindle teachers explain that meaning be obtained qualified students.

c. Considering the diversity of students

Protect individual teachers and believe that individual and social differences should be interpreted to become an engine for learning mutual respect and tolerance to achieve interpersonal skills.

d. Empower students to learn on their own

Formal education is churning for students to master learning how to learn independently in the future.

e. Learning through collaboration

In any collaboration there are always students who stand out compared to his colleagues and the students can serve as a facilitator in the group.

f. Using authentic research

Authentic assessment indicates that learning has taken place in an integrated and contextual and provide opportunities for students to be able to go ahead according to its potential.

g. Pursuit of high standards

Each graduate competencies should determine from time to time be increased and every school should do benchmarking with comparative study every aspect of the school do and abroad.

v Based on the Center for Occupational Research and Development (CORD) Implementation of CTL there are five strategies, that are:

-         Relating

-         Experiencing

-         Applying

-         Cooperating

-         Transferring

Learning the characteristics of CTL :

1. Cooperation.

2. Support each other.

3. Fun, not boring.

4. Learning with passionate.

5. Integrated learning.

6. Using a variety of sources.

7. Active students.

8. Sharing with friends.

9. Students critically creative teachers.

10. Walls and hallways filled with student work, maps, pictures, articles, humor and others.

11. Report to parents is not just a report card but the students' work, practicum report, written by students and others.

Assignment of teachers in CTL

The task of the teacher is to help students achieve their goals. More teachers to deal with strategy rather than giving information. The task of managing a classroom teacher as a team working together to find something new for class members (students). Something new hot comes from finding yourself instead of what the teacher said.