Definition of Contextual Teaching and Learning
actively. They hoped to improve their knowledge about the topic which discussed.
c. Preparing an environment that supports self-regulating
learning. Environment that support self-regulating learning has three
general characteristic, they are: awareness thinking, the use of strategy, and continuing motivation. The students are
encouraged to know their strong and their weakness to organize the learning goal and develop the strategies to achieve the goal.
Therefore the teacher must create an environment where the students can reflect how they learn to help them use their
thinking to guide their plans, select their performance, so they can solve the problem in good way.
d. Considering diversity of students.
In teaching and learning process, the teacher have found students’ variety, for instance social culture, economic status,
different values, perspective, their basic mother tongue, and another weakness which they have. However, a teacher is
expected to help them to improve their learning purpose. e.
Using questioning to explore the students learning, problem solving development and high-thinking order.
In order to develop of Contextual Teaching and Learning purpose, questions variety must be spoken. The question must
be selected carefully in order to produce the high-thinking, responses, and the action that
the students’ need and all of audiences in contextual learning.
f. Applying the authentic assessment
Contextual Teaching and Learning is intended to build knowledge and skills in meaningful ways by engaging students
in real life, or “authentic” context. Authentic assessment evaluates the applying of knowledge and the students’ complex
thinking, it is better than just memorizing the actual information. Authentic assessment is used to monitor student
progress and inform teaching practice.