Is Easy For The Teacher Implementing Lesson Plan Based On School-Based Curriculum

Curriculum in Indonesia has been often changed due to the development of knowledge and technology from year to year. The 1975 curriculum was used from 1975 to 1984. In 1984, the 1984 curriculum was applied. This curriculum was used until 1994. Then, in 1994 the government designed the 1994 curriculum supplemented by 1999 GBPP. In 2004, the decree No.22/1999 and No.25/PP/2000 state that in decentralized education, each school is free to design new syllabus based on the 2004 curriculum (Competency Based Curriculum), but the control is still hold

Currently, the Minister of National Education (MOE) through the decree No.20/2003 on National Education System and 19/PP/2005 on National Education Standard released a new curriculum, called a school-based curriculum, locally called Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan (KTSP). KTSP is an operational education curriculum by which each teacher is free to design new syllabus based on the standard competence and basic competence.

Changing curriculum makes students and teachers confuse. Student and teacher have to follow what governments want. Teachers have to change some material that has been prepared before. And teachers have the problem in adapting and implementing the concept of the new curriculum.

In implementing this curriculum (KTSP), there are many steps to do by teachers before conducting teaching and learning process. One of the important steps is preparing the lesson plans, locally called Rencana Pelaksanaan Pembelajaran (RPP) as a guidance for teaching and learning process. There are many components in RPP. Indonesia’s Government Legislation of 19/2005 No.20 stated that planning of learning process include syllabus and lesson plan (RPP) that consist of at least aim of study, the learning material, teaching method, source of study, and the evaluation of study. All of these components should be connected one another. Whatever curriculum is developed and implemented, it will not bring about better quality of education, unless it has several important components.

The success of the teachers in designing a good Rencana Pelaksanaan Pembelajaran (RPP) influences the teaching and learning process. Without it, the teachers will not be ready to teach in the classroom and their explanation will not be clear. It makes the purpose of the curriculum fail to achieve. The readiness of the teachers, which is shown by a good RPP makes the students able to understand the material and gives a good result in the study. On the other hand, if the teachers do not prepare themselves, the result of the teaching and learning process will be questionable because actually the unwell prepared teaching activity can caused the difficulties for the teachers to encounter the unpredictable problems which arise when the teaching and learning process is going on. Hence, the problems that are not solved immediately will bring unsatisfied result. Although RPP is just a small part of the curriculum, it influences the result of teaching and learning process. The teachers’ understanding on the curriculum determines their ability in creating a good RPP.

Although KTSP have been applied since 2006, implementing this curriculum still difficult. Some of the teachers thought that it is difficult to design Lesson Plan (RPP) based on School-Based Curriculum –locally called KTSP-- because KTSP is new curriculum and they are not familiar with it. In other word, we can conclude that implementing lesson plan based on School-Based Curriculum is not easy. The teachers have to follow or join some teaching training program to improve their information about KTSP.

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