CHAPTER III THE PROFILE OF “SMP Islamiyah Sawangan”
A. Curriculum
Curriculum is one of the important components which may significantly support the requirements of teaching learning process in the school.
Comprehensively, it is defined as the learning which is planned and guided by the school, whether it is carried on in groups or individually, inside or outside of the
school. The curriculum is all of the experiences that individual learners have in a
program of education whose purpose is to achieve broad goals and related specific objectives, which is planned in terms of a framework of theory and research or
past and present professional practice.
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Curriculum can be viewed as a program arrange by an educational institution to provide sequentially organized
knowledge, understanding, skills, and concepts for the learners. A significant aspect of the curriculum is the instruments to bring the needs of the learner
together with the needs of society. In this research, the curriculum used in “ SMP Islamiyah Sawangan” is
The School-Level Curriculum-the “KTSP”. The “KTSP” is operated in “SMP Islamiyah Sawangan”. It has been developed into syllabus, the lesson plan, and
annual program. It is developed and implemented by the school based on the national educational standards.
The purposes of a curriculum or teaching plan are the most important curriculum criteria they should provide the first guideline for determining the
learning experiences to be included in the curriculum. Unfortunately, school commonly lack a comprehensive and reasonably consistent set of objectives on
which to base curriculum decisions, and teachers often fail to use of objectives to guide their planning for teaching.
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Glen Hass and Forrest W. Parkay Curriculum Planning A New Approach Boston :Allyn and Bacon, Sixth Edition, 1993,p.3
In terms of the development of the syllabus of English subject, the teacher tries to elaborate the item of the content standards into the description of learning
and teaching activities of lesson materials, of a variety of competency indicators, of time allocation, of learning and teaching resources, and even of evaluation
instruments and techniques.
B. The English Teaching Method
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