Six Contextual Teaching and Learning Strategies

The CTL model guides teachers to incorporate the following six strategies as they design instructional units.

* Base learning on an overarching problem, which is in the context of students' community.
* Plan for learning to be in multiple contexts.
* Draw upon students' diverse skills, interests, experiences, and cultures.
* Build in strategies that support students in becoming self-regulated learners.
* Plan strategies that stimulate interdependence among students and their learning groups.
* Examine students' learning outcomes by incorporating authentic assessment strategies.