Contextual teaching and learning

Contextual Teaching and Learning; a successful process for engaging students;

Jinan Karameh ShayyaPHD candidate in Science Education

Science and Math Educational Conference 18- March 12, 2016

Workshop outline

• Icebreaker activity• Definition and Importance of CTL• Video of real application to CTL• Planning of CTL• Evaluating CTL• Feedback


Icebreaker question

• What are you expecting from your students to be after finishing school years?

• How are you currently working for achieving your expectations?

• Is the curriculum supporting your endeavors? How?


Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL)

• It is a brain- compatible system of instruction that generates meaning by linking academic content with the context of student’s daily life (Johnson, 2002).



• CTL motivates learners to take charge of their own learning and to make connections between knowledge and its applications to the various contexts of their lives as family members, as citizens, and as workers (Sears, 2001).



• The concept is not new; the application of contextual learning was first proposed (at the turn of the 20th century) by John Dewy who advocated a curriculum and a teaching methodology tied to children’s experiences and interests (Pearson, 2001).



• “Context” means much more, surely, than events located in place and time.

• Context consists of unconscious assumptions absorbed and gained of a world view that shapes our sense of reality.

• Conclusions, choices, and decisions create our context (Johnson, 2002).




Our Context

Environmental

Social

Economic

Unit or Lesson plan for CTL

• Lesson Objectives• Design Performance Task :Goal, Role,

Audience, Situation, Product (GRASP)• Select back up activities to facilitate

prerequisite knowledge and skills for performance Task Completion.


Performance Task plan Template

• You are leaders in your school student’s Council. You observe that you are suffering from heavy back pack problem. You need to alert your school administration about this issue by providing a well rounded report concerning the problem and the suggested solutions.



• Goal: Alert your school administration about Heavy back pack problem

• Role: leaders in your school student’s Council• Audience: Administration/ decision makers• Situation: Heavy back pack problem• Product: well rounded report concerning the

problem and the suggested solutions.




• Scaffolding the tasks:• Investigate to prove that the problem is present

through measuring bags and by researching the convenient mass of bag pack.

• Study the seriousness of the problem by interviewing students, teachers, supervisors, parents, and principal.

• Suggest solutions for the problem and design a working plan for implementation.

• Prepare a report including all the previous tasks to be presented to principal or management board.

Performance Task plan Practice


• Topic: ________________• Performance Task: _______________• GRASP: _____________________• Scaffolding Tasks: ____________________

Evaluation of Performance Task

• Designing Rubrics based upon the tasks assigned to students


Template Rubric


Design your Rubric

• Thank you Let us Leave a Leader

Footprint on the Sand of

Time


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