Abstract:
In the history of English Language Teaching in Indonesia, several changes of curriculum have been
made from time to time. The latest change in Indonesian English curriculum was done in 2006.
Unlike all previous curricula, in this latest change, each school has freedom to develop KTSP as
school curriculum. The central government provides content standard which is put in Standard
Competence and Basic Competence as the main reference to develop school based curriculum or
Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan (KTSP).
Freedom given in curriculum development has created problems in the implementation.
No schools develop their KTSP on their own. Teachers use the details from CBC and modify them
to make KTSP. Teachers copy from one another and publishers then claim it as their KTSP. This
process of developing the KTSP makes them unconfident to use it as the road map to their teaching
and learning process.
This research is to find out how teachers interpret KTSP and implement it in the teaching and
learning process. Interviews and observations were done to find out how these teachers developed
lesson objectives and activities in a two-week training to support the research. Documents analysis is
to confirm whether or not teachers planning their lesson in complying with the curriculum.
