and workers and engage in the hard work that learning requires.
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Based on this statement, CTL can help the teacher relates her or his subject to
real world situations and also can motivate students to connect between what is being learned and their prior knowledge.
Based on the preceding definitions, the writer conclude that CTL is a conception of teaching and learning that helps students to get a better
understanding about the knowledge as they relate to the context of real life.
2. Principles of Contextual Teaching and Learning
Contextual learning assumed that students learn best 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 below which is
line with Nur Hadi stated in his book:
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a. Lesson plans that are developmentally appropriate for the
students. The relationship between curriculum content and methodology
that used teach must base on the particular levels of the students’ social condition, emotional and students’ intellectual
development. b.
Making independent learning group. Through a small group, the students able to learn cooperate
each others. However, the students hoped to learn and act
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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.
