Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) method

definition

Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) is a learning system that matches the performance of the brain, to develop patterns that create meaning, by linking academic content to the context of everyday life learners.

CTL-called contextual approach because the concept of learning that help teachers to link between the content to be studied with real-world situations students and encourage students to make connections between the knowledge possessed by its application in their lives as members of society.

According to the Ministry of Education teachers have to implement some of the following:

1) Studying the concept or theory that will be studied by students.

2)Understand the background and life experience of students through the review process carefully.

3)Learning environment and residential school students who subsequently choose with the concept or theory that will be discussed in contextual learning.

4) Designing teaching by linking the concept or theory studied by considering the experience of its students and their environment.

5) Carry out an assessment of student understanding, the results of which will be used as material against the plan and its implementation.

five essential forms of learning:

·         Relating,

·         Experiencing,

·         Applying,

·         Cooperation,

·         Transfer.

According to the Ministry of Education for its application, contextual approach (CTL) has main components, namely

·         constructivism (constructivism),

·         find (Inquiry),

·         asking (questioning),

·         community-learning (Learning Community),

·         modeling (modeling),

·         reflection (reflection), and

·         The actual assessment (Authentic).

benefit

·         Learning becomes more meaningful and real.

·         Learning more productive and able to foster the strengthening of the concept to the students

Weakness

·         Teachers are more intensive in the lead. Because the CTL method, Teachers no longer serves as a center of information.

·         The task is to manage the classroom teacher as a team that works together to discover new knowledge and skills for students.

·         Teachers provide opportunities for students to discover or implement their own ideas and invite students for being aware and consciously use their own strategies for learning.