Cotextual Teaching Learning

Contecstual Teaching and Learning (CTL).

CTL is a holistic educational process aims to motivate students to understand the meaning of the subject matter learned by linking the material to the context of their daily lives (personal context, social, and cultural), so students have the knowledge / skills that can be flexibly applied (transferred) than one problem / context to the issues / other contexts.

CTL can be applied in any curriculum, any field of study, and class under any circumstances. CTL approach in the classroom is fairly easy. Broadly speaking, the following steps of this.

Learning Cycle

Learning Cycle (Learning Cycle) or in the writing of this abbreviated LC.

Is a model student-centered learning (student centered). LC is a series of stages (phases) are organized in such a way that students can master the competencies that must be achieved in the way of learning with active role.

Initially consist of the LC phases of exploration (exploration), the introduction of the concept (concept introduction), and application of concepts (concept application) (Karplus and Their in Renner et al, 1988). At the exploration stage, students are given the opportunity to utilize the senses as much as possible in their interaction with the environment through activities such as lab work, analyzing the article, discussing the phenomena of nature, observing natural phenomena or social behavior, and others.