ENGLISH TEACHERS’ PROBLEMS IN IMPLEMETING CURRICULUM 2013 IN SMPN 2 WIH PESAM

This research is about the teachers’ problems in implementing curriculum 2013. It was conducted at SMPN 2 Wih Pesam. The aims of the research were to find out what problems are faced by those English teachers in implementing curriculum 2013 in SMPN2 Wih Pesam and to find out what are the teachers’ opinions about the change of curriculum. The design of this research was qualitative descriptive method. The subject of the research was the English teachers in SMPN 2 Wih Pesam. There were two English teachers in the school. The data was collected by using questionnaire and interview. The result showed that there were 4 problems faced by English teachers in SMPN 2 Wih Pesam. They were (1) the basic competence in curriculum 2013 cannot be modified, (2) lack of facilities, (3) the assessment, and (4) students’ low motivation. The result also showed that the English teachers agree that curriculum 2013 should be change, develop, and revise in some aspects to be a perfect curriculum.

SMP N16 Semarang had implemented curriculum 2013 since 2015 and had almost done all steps of teaching instruction as suggested by curriculum 2013 but there were some activities which are not appropriate with the activity which written in their lesson plan and it still need some improvement.Meanwhile in Bandung, there was a researcher who conducted a research in the same topic about curriculum 2013, namely Ekawati (2018).Her research showed that teachers do not implement the steps of scientific approach (for instance inquiry-based learning, project-based learning, problem-based learning, etc) and the basic concept of curriculum effectively.Not only the teachers had difficulties in understanding the approach but also the teachers had difficulties in formulating achievement indicators and valuing students' attitude (behavior) as it is quite abstract to measure.Meanwhile, the research result of Rumapea (2017) showed that the English teachers in SMAN 3 Kota Jambi had obstacles in the scoring criteria.From those researches' results, it can be concluded that there were many problems and obstacles faced by English teachers in many schools in Indonesia.
In SMPN 2 Wih Pesam, the English teachers are very active in education activities.Having the aim of the dormation to develop skills, creative, innovative and effective.(4) Specifically for primary schools, thematic integrative approach can give students many opportunities to know and understand a theme in various subjects.(5) Competencies to be achieved is impartial competence between attitudes, skills, and knowledge.

B. METHOD
This research used qualitative descriptive method.Purposive sampling technique was applied.Sugiyono (2015) stated that purposive sampling is a sampling technique with certain consideration, and it is included in the nonprobability sampling.The participant was all the English teachers in SMPN2 Wih Pesam.There were two English teachers.They were Mrs.A and Mrs.S. Mrs.S taught for grade 7 th and 8 th .Mrs.A taught for grade 9 th .The techniques used in collecting the data were interview and questionnaire.The interview was semi structured interview and the questionnaire is adopted from Dhia Fitriani (2014).There were 21 questions in questionnaire which divided into 3 aspects of questions; teacher, students, and media.The participants gave responds to a series statement by indicating Strongly Agree (SA), Agree (A), Undecided (UN), Disagree(D), or Strongly Disagree (DS) with each statement.Each response in associated with a point value of each statement.In analyzing the data, after did interview the researcher explore the teachers' opinion about the implementation of curriculum 2013 in findings.Meanwhile, the questionnaire was analyzed by using a formula to know the mean score and presented the result in findings.Then, the researcher took conclusion based on the findings.

C. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
After doing the interview to Mrs.S as the English teacher for grade 7 th and 8th, the researcher found that: (1) She gave positive responses to curriculum 2013.She said that the design of the curriculum is good and can develop the students' ability, (2) the curriculum can be implemented easily, (3) curriculum 2013 is better than the previous curriculum (KTSP), ( 4) the biggest obstacle in implementing curriculum 2013 is the lack of facilities that provided by the school in supporting the teaching and learning process.(5)especially for English subject, curriculum 2013 can encourage the students' ability in English, but sometime students' low motivation become a challenge in implementing it, (6) The biggest obstacle faced by the students in curriculum 2013 is the type of questions in assessment in the form of HOT (higher order thinking) skill.It requires the students to think deeply before answering the questions.7) she use scientific approach in teaching, (8) the curriculum should not be changed but it have to be revised to have a perfect curriculum.
The questionnaire was given to both of the English teachers.The results are as follow The changed of curriculum is relevant to the needs of the students and societies 3.Teachers learn new things while teaching changed curriculum 4.Experienced Teachers do not need to prepare themselves to teach the curriculum 5.Teachers have to study all the topics include in the changed curriculum 6.Teachers understand all the topics include in the changed curriculum 7.It is difficult to teach the new curriculum without proper training of teachers 8.In-service training is very useful to upgrade the knowledge of teachers 9.Teachers feel hesitation to discuss the curriculum with the other teahers.10.Due to lack of time, you are unable to cooperate with your colleagues 11.When teachers do not understand some difficult topics, teachers discuss with teacher colleagues to understand.teachers were strongly agree that teachers learn new things while teaching changed curriculum.It means that implementing a new curriculum encouraged teachers to learn more because learning is a lifetime process which never ending.A new curriculum not only develops the educational instruction but also develop the teachers' capability to learn and to think about something new.It is in line with their statement in point number 4. Both of the teachers (100%) were disagree to the statement which stated that experienced teachers do not need to prepare themselves to teach the curriculum.It indicated that even experienced teachers have to prepare themselves to teach the curriculum.To give a good service to the students in the teaching process, a good teacher has to prepare well.It is in line with the result of questionnaire in point number 5 which showed that all the teachers are strongly agree that teachers have to study all the topics include in the change curriculum In point number 6, there is one teacher who agree and one teacher who undecided to the statement "teachers understand all the topics include in the changed curriculum".It means that not all teachers understand the topics offered in the curriculum.It is a reason why teachers have to learn all the topics offered before implemented it in the class.It indicates as well that the capability in understanding the curriculum is different for each teacher.
Therefore the teachers need some training about curriculum, which can be held by the school, school inspectors, the board of education or another institution.The curriculum training is important to the teachers.It is harmonious with point number 7 and 8 which showed that all the teachers strongly agree on the statement "it is difficult to teach a new curriculum without proper training of teachers" and "in-service training is very useful to upgrade the knowledge of teachers".From these statements we can conclude that curriculum training is very significant to English teachers and become the teachers' need.Government have to fulfil the teachers' need to realize a high quality of education in this country.From point number 9 and 10, it can be seen that all the teachers are disagree with the statement "teachers feel hesitation to discuss the curriculum with the other teachers" and statement "due to lack of time, you are unable to cooperate with your colleagues".It means that the teachers need to discuss and cooperate with other teachers and colleagues in understanding and in implementing curriculum 2013.It is in line with the last point, number 11, which showed that they are strongly agree with the statement "when teachers do not understand some difficult topics, teachers discuss with teacher colleagues to understand".It indicates that teachers need colleagues to share and to solve problems together.A difficult thing will be easy to be solved if there are many people discussed together.We can see in Table 2 that all the teachers agree with the statement "change in curriculum is necessary to introduce new method and modern topics".As we know in implementing curriculum 2013, teachers have to use scientific approach in teaching process.There are some steps in scientific approach; observing, questioning, collecting information or experimenting, associating or information processing, and communicating.This approach is not common in the previous curriculum.In the previous curriculum there are many teachers still use conventional teaching method.It indicated that curriculum 2013 introduce new method in teaching and broaden the teachers' knowledge in teaching method.From point 13 and 14, it can be seen that all the teachers are agree with the statement "head teachers facilitates teacher in the teaching process" and with the statement "appropriate audio visual are available in your school to teach the curriculum".It means that the school provided media and facilities in teaching.From the table above, all the teacher (100%) agree to the statement "government arranges training and refresher courses for teachers to teach the new curriculum effectively".In means that there were some trainings that held by the government for the teachers to teach them about curriculum 2013.In point 16, there is one teacher who agree and one teacher who undecided in the statement "curriculum document are provided to the teachers every year".It means that 50% agree that the school provided the curriculum document each year.But another 50% are not sure if the school provided the curriculum document every year.From the result of interview and questionnaire, it was found that the English teachers in They are very up to date in using technology during teaching and learning process.Not only active teaching in the school, they are also active to create education contents in social media.It is in line with statement of a school inspector in Kabupaten Bener Meriah who stated that the English teachers in SMPN 2 Wih Pesam in Kabupaten Bener Meriah have a good capability and performance in teaching.Based on those facts, the researcher wants to find out what problems are faced by those English teachers in implementing curriculum 2013 in SMPN2 Wih Pesam and to find out what are the teachers' opinions about the change of curriculum.Therefore the researcher conducted a research with the tittle The English Teachers' Problem in Implementing Curriculum 2013 in SMPN2 Wih Pesam. 1. Curriculum 2013 Muhammad Nuh as quoted in Dhia Fitria (2014) explain that there are some basic characteristics of curriculum 2013.They are: (a) The teacher should have an ability and to find out as much knowledge because students are easy in finding information freely through the development of technology and information.(2) The students are encouraged to have responsibility through the environment, interpersonal skills,and critical thinking skills.(3)

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Scientific method and project based learning are usually used in the class, (8) curriculum 2013 is quite good but it should be change and revise in some aspects to give the best result.The results of interview with Mrs.A as the English teacher for grade 9 th are as follow: (1) the change of curriculum is a must to bring a positive advancement of education.The change of curriculum should be based on the students' need and new era, (2) the implementation of curriculum 2013 run well in the school, (3) curriculum 2013 is better than KTSP.It has 21 st century instruction, (4) there are three big problems in implementing curriculum 2013.The first is lack of facility in education.The second is the design of basic competence cannot be modified by teacher in school because it has been determined by the education ministry.The third problem is there are only limited students who have the ability in high order thinking skill.(5) the curriculum 2013 is find to be implemented in the school.The competences offered are good but the students still have low motivation in learning English.(6) the obstacle faced by the students in curriculum 2013 is they have to use high order thinking skill.Meanwhile, the students' skill in critical thinking is still low.(

SMPN 2
Wih Pesam agree about the change of curriculum.The change of curriculum is a must to bring a positive advancement of education.The change of curriculum is a must to bring a positive advancement of education.It should be based on the students' need and new era.Eventhough curriculum 2013 is quite good and fine to be implemented in the school but it should be change, develop and revise in some aspects to be a perfect curriculum.D. CONCLUSIONIt can be conclude that there were 4 problems faced by English teachers in SMPN 2 Wih Pesam.They were (1) the basic competence in curriculum 2013 cannot be modified, (2) lack of facilities, (3) the assessment, and (4) students' low motivation.The teachers agree that curriculum 2013 should be change, develop, and revise in some aspects to be a perfect curriculum.The researcher recommend to the next researcher to conduct a research about the implementation of the newest curriculum in 2022 which known with curriculum merdeka.

Table 1 :
Question about Aspect of Teacher

Table 2 :
Question about Aspect of Media.

Table 3 :
Question about Aspect of Students.Table3display the result of questions about aspect of students.It showed that the teachers (100%) agree that curriculum 2013 add students' knowledge.It means that the curriculum 2013 achieve its objective.From point 18, we can see that all teachers agree that the design of curriculum 2013 is based on mental level of students.It means that curriculum 2013 is has suitable with the students' mental level.Both teachers are strongly agree with the statement "students are confused in studying difficult topics".One teacher strongly agrees and one teacher agrees with the statement "Students are sometimes unable to understand about difficult topics".It means that the students sometimes confused and unable to understand about difficult topic.It is a normal condition when students learn about a new thing.They need guidance from teachers.As we now curriculum 2013 encourages students to think critically in answering HOTS (higher order thinking skill) type of questions.In the last point, it showed that all the teacher agree that the implementation of curriculum 2013 can increase the students' ability in English.It indicates that the material and instruction offered in curriculum 2013 fulfil the students' need The purposes of this research were to find out what problem are faced by English teachers in implementing curriculum 2013 and to find out what are teachers' opinion about the change of curriculum.The researcher try to answer those questions based on findings.The researcher use interview and questionnaire in collecting the data.Based on interview result, there was no significant problem faced by the English teacher in implementing curriculum 2013 in the school and it can be implemented easily.But, there are some problems faced by English teachers in implementing curriculum 2013 in SMPN2 Wih Pesam.The first is the design of basic competence cannot be modified by teacher in school because it has been determined by the education ministry.The teachers have to follow the instruction made without modified the content.The second is the lack of facilities that provided by the school in supporting the teaching and learning process.The school has provided tha media and other facilities but it feels not enough yet.The third is the type of questions in curriculum 2013 assessment in the form of HOT (higher order thinking) skill.It requires the students to think deeply before answering the questions.Meanwhile there are only limited students who have ability in high order thinking skill.The forth is students' low motivation in learning English.How good a curriculum is designed, it will be difficult to implement if there is no motivation to learn.