The Problems and Solutions of Curriculum 2013

The government of Indonesia releases a new curriculum that is called Curriculum 2013. The Curriculum 2013 that recently replaces KTSP is confused the doer of education; even they are the teachers or students. The teachers just apply the oldest one and then suddenly government asks them to use Curriculum 2013. They thought it was difficult to do because they have to adapt with the new one first. The Curriculum 2013 is not easy to understand because it is very different with KTSP. The teachers need to know the curriculum well and then they will apply it well, too. In other hand, the students also have troublesome with the application of Curriculum 2013. In this curriculum, students must be more active in class but the teacher is not. They have to give a presentation in every meeting and the teacher just sat at the chair and asses them. They think it was not fair. The launching of a new curriculum should be followed by giving direction on seminar or coaching for the teachers. It would help them to understand the curriculum. If the teachers know the curriculum well, then they will also able to apply it effectively without making the students feel unfair. Every problem must have solution, so do the problem of Curriculum 2013. No matter what the curriculum is used, the importance is the application of it do not confusing the doer of education.

process or product?

The process is more important that the product in education point of view. As we know that in learning activity has two aspects. They are process and as the result of the process is product. The process of learning will determine the product through how the quality of it. we can see it in the activeness of the learners, when they are very carious in process of learning. In the other, process gives more impression than the product. The experiences that the learners will be gotten gives them unforgetable knowledge. Then the product we get will describes how the quality and the process run. perhaps most of the people who concern with the product without knowing the process consider that the product determine everything in learning activity. So, education should give more attention on the process of learning than the product.