Teacher Readiness in Implementing the 2013 Curriculum

The teacher’s role is very necessary in the success of 2013 curriculum implementation. If the teachers implement it well, then it will produce a good quality of education as the objective of 2013 curriculum. This study aims to know the implementation of 2013 curriculum by English Teacher related to Planning, Teaching-Learning and Evaluation. This study is a qualitative research; there are four of English teacher and one vice of curriculum of SMP Islam Al-Falah to be participant for this study and the data were collected by interview. This study has two research questions: 1) how is the readiness of English teachers in implementing the 2013 curriculum? 2) What are the teacher’s obstacles in implementing the 2013 curriculum? The result of this study showed that the implementation of 2013 curriculum by English teacher on the dimension of planning which related to the lesson plan, the English teacher of SMP Islam Al- Falah has arranged it based on 2013 curriculum, on the dimension of teaching- learning process and evaluation some teacher still use the previous method. Furthermore, some of them have started to apply methods that are appropriate with the 2013 curriculum. Besides, the English teachers also have difficulty on time limitation in implementing the 2013 curriculum.