removes the mental blinders impossed by limited experience and narrow perceptions.
5. Critical and Creative Thinking
Critical thinking involves thinking well, and thinking well includes thinking about the thinking process. It is engaged students in activities which they
have to use reasons in an organized way.
6. Nurturing The Individual
Teacher was asked to know all about the students at school – that students’ interest, talents, learning styles, emotional temperament, and treatment by
peers, help student believe in themselves and find their way, inspire them to reach even the most demanding academic standards. It helped student to
discover their hidden potential by providing them with an emotionally reassuring and supportive learning environment.
7. Reaching high standards
Setting a high academic mark for student to reach an essential component of the contextual teaching and learning system. Setting high standards helped
the students to reach the goals.
8. Using Authentic Assesment.
Authentic assesment chalengges students to apply new academic ainformation and skills to a real situation for a significant purpose. It is the
tool of a mind ful school.
3. The Principles of contextual teaching and Learning
Contextual learning assumed that students learn best by actively constructing their own understanding. Related with the students individually
needed, to apply the Contextual Teaching and Learning CTL a teacher should have these following principles:
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1. Planning a suitable learning for the students developmentally appropriate.
Relationship between curriculum content and methodology that used to teach must based on social condition, emotional and students’ intellectual
development.
2. Making independent learning groups.
Through a little group students able to learn and cooperate each others. However, the students are hoped to act actively.
3. Preparing an environment that supports self-regulated learning.
