Additional Resources for Teachers
Contextual Learning & Teaching
What is Contextual Teaching and Learning?
Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) helps us relate subject matter content to real world situations and motivate students to make connections between knowledge and its applications to their lives as family members, citizens, and workers and engage in the hard work that learning requires.
"Students learn best–and retain what they have learned–when (1) they are interested in the subject matter and (2) concepts are applied to the context of the students' own lives." (ATEEC Fellows 2000)
Center for Excellence in Teaching
Contextual learning occurs when teachers relate subject matter to real world situations. Students are motivated to make connections between knowledge and its applications to their lives as family members, citizens, and workers.
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