Abstract :
Teachers? perception is the process of teachers to interpret and organize
an environment into meaningful information which cover teachers? feeling of like
or dislike toward something, it includes also the positive or negative opinion.
Teachers? perception in this study focuses on the implementation of Curriculum
2013 in English subject. Meanwhile, Curriculum 2013 is defined as a
competency-based curriculum that is competence of graduates, include attitudes,
knowledge, and skills in accordance with national standards agreed, and still
provide authority to the academic and teachers to develop it.
This is mixed method design or qualitative survey. 12 English teachers
who teach Curriculum 2013 at senior high school that became the subject of this
study. The data was collected by using perception questionnaire. After gained the
data, the researcher analyzed the data by using some formulas. The researcher also
used interview to ensure the result of questionnaire.
The researcher?s finding from calculating of data showed that teachers
had positive perception to the implementation of Curriculum 2013. There are 7
teachers (58.3 %) had positive perception. Finally, it can be concluded that the
teachers agree about the implementation of Curriculum 2013, but there are some
problems or aspects that have to be solved such as the students could not interest
the material of handbook because the material was incomplete, implementation of
scientific approach needed long time, the environment of learning could not
conducive if the learning process was too long, learning models were difficult to
implement, assessments were difficult to implement, etc. Therefore, it suggested
for conducting studies which aim to find teachers? perception toward
implementation of Curriculum 2013 in different subject and situation, for the
schools, schools can complete some aspects that are needed in implementation of
Curriculum 2013, for the teachers, they may motivate to other teacher in other
schools to use Curriculum 2013 and provide suitable material in implementation
of Curriculum 2013, and for the students, they may give participation in
implementation Curriculum 2013.