Key words: English teachers’ problem, 2013 curriculum
Nowadays, the used Curriculum in Indonesia is the 2013 Curriculum. Since 2016
ago, all secondary schools has been recommended to implement the 2013 curriculum.
Even though, the 2013 curriculum had been implemented in several years, but the
teachers still got difficulties in implementing the 2013 curriculum. However, the teachers’
role in implementing this curriculum is necessary to bring an education in Indonesia
better. If the teachers understood well this curriculum, they would implement it
successfully and the students would have good quality in facing the global era as an
objective of the 2013 curriculum. As the matters showed, this study had analyzed the
implementation of 2013 curriculum which has the purpose, such as 1) to describe the
implementation of the 2013 curriculum and 2) to present the English teachers’ problem in
implementing the 2013 curriculum.
This was a qualitative research which was clasified as case study. That method
was used to present the problems which faced by the Junior High School English teachers
in five schools of Kasihan district. This was collected the data trough thequestionnaire,
interview, and documentation; and itinvoled the English teachers of Junior High School.
This study analyzed the qualitative data by identifying, classifying, and describing the
problems which were faced by the English teachers in implementing the 2013 curriculum
in SMP Schools ofKasihan district.
The results showed that most of the English teachers in five schools of Kasihan
district still had problems in implementating of the 2013 curriculum namely: 1) teachers’
difficulties in designing the lesson plan especially in choosing appropriate methods in
accordance with the students characteristic and teaching procedures; 2) the difficulty in
choosing appropriate methods with the students characteristic; 3) the students ability and
interest in English; 4) teachers’ difficulty in finding the apropriate instrument of authentic
assessment; 5) teachers’ problem related to the facilities of teaching learning process.
Those problems is influenced the students outcomes quality.Those problems would
influence the students’ outcome quality. In short, the problems faced by the teachers
include the teaching planning, teaching learning process, and assessment.