Contextual teaching and learning
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The document outlines the concept of contextual teaching and learning (CTL) as a method that connects academic content with students' daily life, enhancing their engagement and responsibility for their own learning. It includes a workshop agenda from the Science and Math Educational Conference, focusing on definitions, applications, planning, and evaluating CTL. Additionally, it provides examples of performance task planning and scaffolding strategies to address real-world issues, such as solving the heavy backpack problem in schools.
Contextual teaching and learning
- 1. Contextual Teaching and Learning; a successful process for engaging students; Jinan Karameh Shayya PHD candidate in Science Education Science and Math Educational Conference 18- March 12, 2016
- 2. Workshop outline • Icebreaker activity • Definition and Importance of CTL • Video of real application to CTL • Planning of CTL • Evaluating CTL • Feedback Science and Math Educational Conference 18- March 12, 2016
- 3. 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? Science and Math Educational Conference 18- March 12, 2016
- 4. 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). Science and Math Educational Conference 18- March 12, 2016
- 5. Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) • 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). Science and Math Educational Conference 18- March 12, 2016
- 6. Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) • 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). Science and Math Educational Conference 18- March 12, 2016
- 7. Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) • “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). Science and Math Educational Conference 18- March 12, 2016
- 8. Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) Science and Math Educational Conference 18- March 12, 2016 Our Context Environmental Social Economic
- 9. 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. Science and Math Educational Conference 18- March 12, 2016
- 10. 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. Science and Math Educational Conference 18- March 12, 2016
- 11. Performance Task plan Template • 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. Science and Math Educational Conference 18- March 12, 2016
- 12. Performance Task plan Template Science and Math Educational Conference 18- March 12, 2016 • 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.
- 13. Performance Task plan Practice Science and Math Educational Conference 18- March 12, 2016 • Topic: ________________ • Performance Task: _______________ • GRASP: _____________________ • Scaffolding Tasks: ____________________
- 14. Evaluation of Performance Task • Designing Rubrics based upon the tasks assigned to students Science and Math Educational Conference 18- March 12, 2016
- 15. Template Rubric Science and Math Educational Conference 18- March 12, 2016
- 16. Design your Rubric • Thank you Let us Leave a Leader Footprint on the Sand of Time Science and Math Educational Conference 18- March 12, 2016
Editor's Notes
- #5: Examples when thinking of real life applications of knowledge, linking the definition to its need for achieving the objectives of education.
- #6: Education for a good citizen.
- #7: The ideologies of education, student-centered, Social efficiency, scholar academic, and social reconstruction. Discussion about our expectations and which ideology is a must, participants must reach to a point that all ideologies must be implemented in a curriculum.
- #8: Here participants need to link the educational vision to the context they want to work with, our context is our country, with all its places, times, and problems..this is our context..
- #9: Reminding that the environmental can be climate change, pollution, waste management, renewable energy; Social can be poverty, overpopulation, gender equity; and economy can be sustainable consumption, system thinking…