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Corresponding Author:
Intan Jamilah
Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia; intanjamilah.2021@student.uny.ac.id
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1. INTRODUCTION
Education is a fundamental part of human life for a country's national development because the
quality of education is very influential on the progress of the nation and state(Akib et al., 2020). The
development of an increasingly advanced era also has an impact on the education system in Indonesia,
as stated byBaro'ah (2020)that in facing the future, it will be influenced by the flow of globalization and
the existence of the principle of openness and advances in information technology, in this case, the world
of education will be faced with various new challenges that are increasing, for example in terms of the
curriculum. A good curriculum in the world of education that continues to develop will impact
personality that is better functionally because the curriculum plays a vital role in educational
success.(Setiawan et al., 2020). In education, the curriculum is a set of lesson plans and the things that
have been prepared therein, containing interrelated components as guidelines for achieving educational
goals.(Kamiludin & Suryaman 2017).
Curriculum development is a vital component in the educational process because the curriculum is
considered the "heart" of every learning institution, and it can be said that schools will not exist without
a curriculum. (Kranthi, 2017). According to toIndarta et al. (2022), curriculum development will be
effective if the development follows the needs and demands of a growing community. Based on this
opinion, one of the government's efforts to achieve educational goals is to develop a
curriculum(Nurwiatin, 2022). Curriculum development is a planned, directed, progressive and
systematic process of improving education(Kranthi, 2017). The dynamics of educational development
always experience policy changes, in Indonesia at least there have been more than ten changes to the
curriculum since the beginning of independence from the 1947 learning program to the 2020 independent
learning(Nurjanah, 2021).
In 2020 the Indonesian government will implement a new curriculum at all levels of education. As
conveyed by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia, Mr. Nadiem Anwar
Makarim implemented a new idea in the world of education, namely "Freedom to Learn," which was
born because of the many problems in the field of education, especially in terms of empowering every
human being, this resulted in various changes in the education system(Baro'ah, 2020). This curriculum
was initiated as an initial step that aims to reduce the effects of learning loss due to Covid-19(Rachmawati
et al., 2022). The term "Freedom to learn" is defined as freedom in learning by providing as free learning
opportunities as possible for students to learn in a calm, happy and relaxed manner according to their
natural talents without going through pressure and coercion.(Abidah et al., 2020).
The implementation of the new curriculum does not only provide material through the teacher,
but students are expected to be able to excel not only from the results of the national exam but through
the collaboration of various cognitive abilities so that it does not only focus on the material provided
by the teacher, but students can develop their knowledge through experience and other learning
resources by involving existing technology(Ramdani et al., 2021). The new curriculum is a curriculum
that focuses on essential material, character development, and student competencies to hone children's
talents and interests. Previously, the curriculum had been tested through 2,500 driving schools in
Indonesia(Nurwiatin, 2022). The independent learning policy was initiated with the hope that it would
be the right solution to overcome the current problems because it emerged in the era of the industrial
revolution 4.0 and society 5.0 which can provide challenges and opportunities for all educational
institutions in Indonesia. (Rokhyani, 2022).
Four central policies are regulated in the new curriculum: national standard school policies,
eliminating national exams, simplifying lesson plan sheets, and zoning regulations for admitting new
students to schools. (Abidah et al., 2020; Baro'ah, 2020; Ministry of Education and Culture, 2019; Mardiana
& Umiarso, 2020). In addition to the four central policies, one of the orientations of the new curriculum is
learning that focuses on achieving concrete results by involving curriculum, assessment, and learning
reporting practices involving five principles, namely; (1) focus on learning outcomes; (2) overall
curriculum design; (3) provide learning opportunity facilities; (4) according to learning; and (5) using the
plan-do-check-action cycle(Suryaman, 2020). The differences between the new curriculum and the
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previous learning curriculum are; (1) study hours per year 144 hours; (2) there are learning outcomes; (3)
there is a flow of learning objectives; (4) teaching modules; (5) design weekly project learning 20% of the
intracurricular; (6) can use a block system; (7) IPA and IPS are made into IPAS; (8) project-based learning;
(9) SBdP learning can only be taught in one field; (11) each class is divided into several phases(Angga et
al., 2022).
Facing the ever-evolving curriculum development, cooperation from various parties is needed, one
of which is the teacher. As said byAlsubaie (2016), without a doubt, the most critical person in the
curriculum implementation process is a teacher because they are the most knowledgeable about how to
practice teaching and are responsible for introducing the curriculum in the classroom. It is not easy for
teachers to deal with the renewal of the previous curriculum with the current curriculum. To address this
situation, readiness is needed. Readiness is needed as a reinforcement for someone to grow and find
meaning from the situation experienced(Ramdani et al., 2021). In more detail, readiness is the potential to
respond to something given, and if someone has readiness, it will be easier to respond (Jannah et al., 2020).
The readiness of education to implement the curriculum is not limited to cognitive and
metacognitive abilities. However, it involves understanding the content, how to apply the curriculum,
the suitability of the philosophy of the curriculum with the teacher's paradigm, and the learning principles
that will be upheld. (Puskur Education and Culture Research and Technology, 2021). As expressed
byRahmadayanti & Hartoyo (2022)that in implementing the curriculum because it includes a new policy,
of course, schools and teachers need to prepare correctly, starting from understanding the structure of the
curriculum, assessment, learning outcomes, the flow of learning objectives, implementing projects and so
on. The government explained that independent learning will be made into the national curriculum in
2024, but in the 2022/2023 school year, the government has started implementing a new curriculum at
every level of the school; for elementary schools, it is implemented in grade 1 and grade 4. Based on the
background presented above, this research was conducted to provide a direct description of the
implementation of the new curriculum in schools. This study aims to determine the readiness of teachers
in welcoming the new curriculum in elementary schools.
2. METHODS
This research uses descriptive research with a qualitative approach because the results of this
research are in the form of words about the information on the readiness of elementary school teachers to
welcome learning through the new curriculum. Qualitative research is a natural method in which the
researcher is critical for conducting research through predetermined procedures(Sugiyono, 2016). This
research was conducted in October-November 2022 with data sources from the results of literature
reviews from various sources discussing the curriculum. Interviews with 2 school principals and 12
teachers at SDN 01 and 02 Gentungan, Mojogedang sub-district, Karanganyar, Central Java. Observations
of schools and documentation studies as support for the research results obtained. After that, data
analysis was carried out using the Miles & Huberman model through four stages: data collection, data
reduction, data presentation, and conclusion.
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No Policy Explanation
USBN will be entirely handed over to the school so that
National Standard School
1. teachers are more flexible in assessing student learning
Examination
outcomes.
National Examination will be replaced with a minimum
2. National exam
competency assessment and character survey in schools.
RPP teachers are free to choose, create, and use according to
3. Lesson plan their innovations but remain oriented toward child
development.
There are several differences in the PPDB quota, namely the
Expanding the Zoning System 50% zoning route, 15% affirmation path, 5% transfer path,
4.
in Accepting New Students and the achievement path or the remaining 0-30%, all of
which are adjusted to local conditions and policies.
Independent Learning Concept According to Baro'ah (2020).
Based on the four policies that have been put forward in the curriculum update points, in more
detail the policy findings can be explained as follows:
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reviewed through; (1) physical readiness, namely the teacher's health condition in learning the
constructors of the new curriculum teaching modules; (2) psychological readiness, namely teacher
motivation and interest in learning the preparation of new curriculum teaching modules; (3)
understanding readiness, namely the teacher's understanding in preparing the new curriculum
teaching modules; (4) material readiness, namely supporting infrastructure in compiling teaching
modules in schools.
Based on the research, it was found that; (1) the physical readiness of the teacher, namely based
on the results of observations and documentation of the teacher having good health, as evidenced by
the absence of serious problems when the teacher carries out the learning process and compiles
teaching modules. (2) the psychological readiness of the teacher, namely, the teacher feels interested
and happy with the policy of preparing this new teaching module because the format of the teaching
module is adapted to students and the creativity of the teacher so that the teacher is more focused on
the learning process. (3) the readiness of the teacher's understanding, that is, as a whole, the teacher
understands the format of preparing the teaching modules used in the learning process, but some
teachers say that they have never directly prepared teaching modules because currently only grade 1
and 4 teachers have used the new curriculum.
4. CONCLUSION
Based on the research, the following conclusions are obtained: (1) physical readiness to face
curriculum policies, namely 100% of teachers and education staff have an excellent medical history, so
they do not interfere with teacher performance in welcoming the new curriculum. (2) based on
psychological readiness to face curriculum policies, teachers are ready to use the new curriculum.
However, some teachers are seniors or teachers who are old, and they feel tired because they have to
learn to adjust to new policies. Currently, a lot of information or policies exist in the digital world, even
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though the teachers who are old say they are not good at using the technology that exists today. (3)
based on the readiness of the teacher's understanding of the curriculum policy, namely, the teacher
does not fully understand the new curriculum policy because, indeed, the socialization is not
comprehensive. It is still being carried out in stages. However, teachers can develop their
understanding through curriculum training workshop activities provided by various platforms.
Besides, the government has required teachers to understand the curriculum through independent
teaching applications so that teachers can learn and increase their understanding of the new curriculum
policy. (4) based on material readiness. Namely, the infrastructure available in elementary schools has
exceeded the criteria for carrying out USBN replacement assessment activities, minimum competency
assessments, and UN surrogate character surveys, simplifying RPP or what is known as teaching
modules in the new curriculum and zoning the PPDB system. The infrastructure available for students
meets the standards following Permendikbud No. 26 of 2016, namely the availability of classrooms,
principal and teacher rooms, computer lab rooms, libraries, learning support books, and internet access,
while infrastructure facilities for teachers are the availability of wifi networks in schools, borrowing
school laptops to facilitate the teacher's work, providing directions to teachers to take part in seminars
or workshops in developing a new curriculum and study independently through applications provided
by the government.
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