Turnitin Artikel: The New Curriculum in the Indonesian Educational System: Can Islamic Teachers Teach Better?

This paper makes a real and unique contribution of knowledge. The new curriculum in Indonesia has created debates among teachers, including Islamic teachers. To enhance the quality of education, the government of Indonesia has established a new curriculum, publicly known as the 2013 Curriculum. This curriculum is clearly designed to enhance pupils’ understanding. The curriculum has several aims, like allowing the teacher to arrange learning plans, increasing pedagogic competence, and facilitating learning evaluation. Those main attributes are expected to be possessed by Islamic teachers, who will be able to teach better. These aims, however, have produced a new problem, which was not expected by the new curriculum. To address this, researchers have conducted research in the Province of Aceh, and involved a number of school masters as the first data resources. This research has used a qualitative method with an educational approach. The main instruments used in this research were interview and observation.