Contextual teaching and learning is an important pedagogical tool that can be applied to counselor education. It provides a theoretical rationale for many teaching and learning interventions. This article describes contextual teaching and learning and applies its five major components to counselor education.The field of counselor education recently has turned its attention to issues of pedagogy and the underlying assumptions of the teaching methods used in the counseling curriculum. The December 1998 edition of Counselor Education and Supervision (see Smaby, 1998) was devoted to the theoretical foundations of the teaching of counseling. Consistent among all the authors in the issue was a core belief that counselor education lacks a coherent, articulated pedagogy. In fact, a review of the literature by Nelson and Neufeldt (1998) found no scholarly articles in the literature that addressed pedagogy in counselor education. Granello and Hazler (1998) noted that although the field has long focused on the content of the counseling curriculum, there has been very little discussion on how the information is best conveyed to students. Sexton (1998) stated that without a theoretical foundation to guide the teaching of counseling, "history and tradition have been the primary pedagogical guidance for counselor educators" (p. 69).As counselor educators struggle to develop strong theoretical foundations for teaching, they are reminded by Nelson and Neufeldt (1998)