Contextual learning strategies or known by the term Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL), is a learning strategy that emphasizes the involvement of children in full process to be able to find material to learn and connect it with the real situation so as to encourage students to apply in their lives, and can learn the material through the events around them.

From this concept, there are three things that need to be understood. First. Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) stressed to the involvement of children to find the material, meaning that the teaching-learning process be oriented to the process of direct experience. The learning process in Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) does not expect only the child understand the subject matter, but most important is the process of seeking and finding their own learning experience.

Second, Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) encourages children to discover the relationship of matter being studied with real life situation, meaning that children are required to capture the relationship between relationship learning at school with life in their social environment. It is very important, because with correlate with real life, the material will be meaningful in a functional, and the material will be more in mind in their cognitive domain.

Third, Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) encourages children to be able to apply them in their everyday life, meaning Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) is not just expect children to understand the subject matter, but how the subject matter to paint behavior. Subject matter in the context of Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) not only to remember in the brain, but in preparation for the child in the face of the real nature of life.

Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL), in accordance with the spirit of the four pillars of education:

1. Learning to know
2. Learning to do
3. Learning to be
4. Learning to live together