The Curriculum Changes Impact on School and English Learning Process in Senior High School at Rural Area North Maluku

Abstract

This present research aims to investigate the impact of the Indonesian curriculum changes to teachers, students and schools in rural area and its impact on learning English in rural area North Maluku. The participants in this study is Principal, Students, English Teacher, and Vice Principal at SMA N 29 Halmahera Selatan as the representative to acquired data. This study was designed using qualitative through observation and interviews. As the result, this current research states that, both teachers, students, and schools experience panic in implementing each curriculum that is launched so that it affects the mentality of all elements of the school involved including: 1.) Teachers: they panic to readjust the new rules and their teaching abilities. 2.) School: In terms of administrative adjustments, schools will make adjustments that take a long time, such as holding workshops that required additional costs, etc. In addition, this study states that if teachers are required to choose modern media in teaching but in reality access is limited such as the internet, learning media facilities and infrastructure ultimately do not guarantee the implementation of the demands of the national curriculum in rural schools. In conclusion, we found that there is inequality education between urban schools and the rural school. In the future, this research must continue into policy research, namely by suggesting a specific curriculum for schools in rural areas without making it difficult for teachers and schools about a lot of documents or administration, so it doesn't take a lot of time for adjustments but it's immediately implemented. Considering that Indonesia is a country consisting of islands and is not united by one mainland. Therefore, the Indonesian education curriculum should not be equated with the curriculum adopted by developing countries or other developed countries with state conditions that are on the same continent. The second is that, next research should find a proper method to be used for English learning in rural school.