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This document discusses a professional development program on contextualized instruction for adult learners hosted by McLennan Community College and the Texas Success Initiative. The objectives of the program are to identify course content that can be contextualized, learn strategies for engaging students with basic skills, and explore opportunities for collaboration to develop contextualized lessons. The program promotes contextualized teaching and learning as a strategy that actively engages students and improves learning by relating subject matter to real-world situations. Participants discuss challenges and benefits and have opportunities to collaborate and develop contextualized activities for their own classes.

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Sample of Contextualized Lesson Plan in Math

This document discusses a professional development program on contextualized instruction for adult learners hosted by McLennan Community College and the Texas Success Initiative. The objectives of the program are to identify course content that can be contextualized, learn strategies for engaging students with basic skills, and explore opportunities for collaboration to develop contextualized lessons. The program promotes contextualized teaching and learning as a strategy that actively engages students and improves learning by relating subject matter to real-world situations. Participants discuss challenges and benefits and have opportunities to collaborate and develop contextualized activities for their own classes.

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Contextualized Instruction for Adult Learners

McLennan Community College and the Texas Success Initiative Professional Development Program
Dr. Johnette McKown, President
McLennan Community College

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Agreements

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Warm-Up!
Follow the directions on the box

In your group read


the directions on the
box.

Wait for the


facilitator to give the
command to start.

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Objectives
 Identify course content areas that can be contextualized with real
world application.

 Learn strategies for engaging students with basic skills


challenges in the classroom to create contextualized activities that
promote learning, retention and persistence.

Explore opportunities for partnership and collaboration with


college and basic skills staff to develop contextualized teaching
and learning lessons and form professional learning communities.
Mission & Vision

Review with your shoulder partners both statements.

• What are the similarities?

•Can we call this COMMON GROUND?

• What does this mean for our classes?

• Lesson planning?

• Students?

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Why CONTEXTUALIZATION?

According to America's Perfect Storm

Of the 19.0 million new jobs between 2004 and


2014, 9.0 million are expected to involve higher
level literacy (America’s Perfect Storm: Three
Forces Changing our Nation’s Future, ETS)

How are we incorporating high level LITERACY?


Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking, Thinking

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What is Contextualization?

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CONTEXTUALIZATION

Contextualized Teaching and Learning


(CTL) is identified as a promising strategy
that actively engages students and
promotes improved learning and skills
development. (Gillespie)

A “conception of teaching and learning that


helps teachers relate subject matter content
to real world situations”
What IS Contextualized Teaching & Learning?

Mazzeo (2008):
“A diverse family of instructional strategies
designed to more seamlessly link the learning of
foundational skills and academic or occupational
content by focusing teaching and learning
squarely on concrete applications in a specific
context that is of interest to the student”

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Contextualized Teaching and
Learning: A Faculty Primer

A Review of Literature and Faculty


Practices with Implications for
California Community College
Practitioners. Spring 2009

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The Two Sides

Traditional Instruction Contextualization

Predicated on the active


role of the instructor and • Students actively engage
the passive role of the in the use of content in
student. real world context.
Uses conventional • Teacher is facilitator and
learning methodologies help connect content and
context.
Places students in inert
roles and abstract • Content is made “real” by
using various new
contexts methodologies.
Traditional Lesson

Lecture Lesson
Content or Homework
Demo Plan

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The OLD WAY
Pathway for ABE or ESL to College

ABE or College
GED Dev Ed
ESL level

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No longer is education “First this…then that”
Our call is to go beyond the content.

Stand Linked
Career Team
Alone or OTHER?
Infused Teaching
Class Bridge

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Think about a situation….
• Where you had a chance to learn through the
active application of knowledge and skills.

• What difference did it make to what and how


you learned?
Learning
Learning
activity
activity

Context
Content

Content
Context

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The Key is Real World Application

Subject Math: Fractions, Decimals, Percents

Real World Industry


Money Banking
Budgeting Business
Shopping/Sales Retail
Measurements Manufacturing

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Let’s look at WRITING
How is it used in the real world?

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New Way- Contextualization

When you start with Content : When you start with Context:

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Let’s look at Context- Nursing

Nursing Skills-
Reading-
Reading charts, reference materials,
Writing-
Writing reports, resumes, messages, letters
Math-
Weight, measurements, prescriptions,

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Finding Common Ground!

Content

Context

Real Life
Learning
Activity

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Sample Contextualized Lesson Scenarios

With a partner,

Read and review the scenario.

Be prepared to share!

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Recap Review

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Finding Common Ground!

Content

Context

Real Life
Learning
Activity

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Time to Collaborate

What are your thoughts on Contextualization?


• Foreseeable Challenges
• Benefits and Opportunities
Video Watching Protocol

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How Can We Contextualize the Lesson?

• What went well?

• What could be better?

• How can we apply real life/world


examples?

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Resources

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Integrated Lessons

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Let’s review WEBB’S DOK
Bloom’s Taxonomy vs. Webb’s
Discuss with you neighbor…

What kinds of resources would be most helpful in supporting


your work around contextualized teaching and learning?

• professional development; networking with other peer experts:


exposure to innovative models; additional research & information;
other

How could others support your efforts to strengthen


contextualized approaches at your program/college?

• college leadership; non-CTE faculty; counseling faculty; others

How could external partners support you?


Time to Share
Next Step:
Develop Contextualized Activity
☺How can you make
your class real?

☺Who will you work


with to develop
lessons?

☺What more do you


need to implement
CTL?

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“It is vital that when educating our children’s
brains that we do not neglect to educate their
hearts.”
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Today’s learners must be engaged differently in order to
prepare them for life and work in the 21st century.
Works Cited
• Contextualized Teaching & Learning: A Faculty Primer A
Review of Literature and Faculty Practices with Implications
for California Community College Practitioners
• http://www.cccbsi.org/websites/basicskills/images/ctl.pdf
• The Research & Planning Group for California Community
Colleges
• http://rpgroup.org/css/CTL.html
• Equipped for the Future Web Portal resources
• https://www.edpubs.gov/document/ed001934w.pdf
• http://www.cord.org/contextual-learning-definition/
Contextualized Instruction for Adult Learners
McLennan Community College and the Texas Success Initiative Professional Development Program

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