Six Contextual Teaching and Learning Strategies

This 11-page document, provided by the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC), discusses six contextual teaching and learning (CTL) strategies, including their goals, examples, and "challenges" that help instructors implement them. When conducting CTL, instructors must identify a question or issue that is both relevant to their subject area and worthwhile to students' lives. Each strategy focuses on a different strength of CTL, which are as follows:

• CTL is Problem-Based Learning
• CTL Uses Multiple Contexts
• CTL Draws Upon Student Diversity
• CTL Supports Self-Regulated Learning
• CTL Uses Interdependent Learning Groups 
• CTL Employs Authentic Assessment