Department of Education in Indonesia has repeatedly
changed the curriculum. Public often judge that the change of Minister of
Education
will be followed by the change of the policy. Education Unit Level Curriculum (=Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan/ KTSP)
will be replaced by the Curriculum 2013 in
this July 2013. The reason is the failure of some schools to implement KTSP.
The educators do not fulfill the teaching requirements demanded by KTSP such as
lesson plans (RPP) and syllabus. Even if they have it they just buy and do not
teach the way that is written on it. So, the
Department of Education assessed it as a failure in the implementation of KTSP.
This new curriculum is considered as a process to improve the quality of
education. Students are directed to be more creative in learning with
observation based learning method and forming networking. However, there are
some lessons which are reduced the hours of lesson on the grounds of efficiency and
effectiveness in Curriculum 2013, one of which is the English subject. Thus, if
the government applied Curriculum 2013 in Senior High School,
I believe that English lesson would not be effective anymore because four
aspects
(listening, speaking, reading, and writing)
in English would not be achieved, teachers should compress the material, and
the compression of the material could not be absorbed by some students
optimally.
