English Curriculum and the Latest Syllabus

Adapted from SMAMA Kurikulum 2004

B. English Curriculum and the Latest Syllabus

Curriculum always changes as the students’ need also always changes from time to time in accordance with the changing of the science and technology. Therefore, to meet the students’ need, the 2004 English curriculum has been replaced by the 2006 English curriculum based on the decree of the Minister of National Educational number 22pm2006 about content standard and for basic education and secondary one throughout Indonesia since the 2003-2004 academic year. Moreover, the organization of schooling and further education has long been associated with the idea of a curriculum. But what actually is curriculum? The term “curriculum” has many different definitions, as states in the Constitution of 1945 no.20 of 2003 about National Educational System in section I, verse 19; “Kurikulum adalah seperangkat rencana dan pengaturan mengenai tujuan, isi, dan bahan pelajaran serta acara yang digunakan sebagi pedoman penyelenggaraan kegiatan pembelajaran untuk mencapai tujuan pendidikan tertentu” 14 . Decree of the Minister of National Educational number 19 year 2005 about Standard of National Educational tells that the standard conducts with curriculum are Standard of Content SI and Standard of Graduation Competence SKL Syllabus refers to the content or subject matter of an individual subject, whereas curriculum refers to the totality of content to be taught and aims to be realized within one school or educational system White 1988:4. Thus, a curriculum subsumes a syllabus. Syllabus differ from a curriculum in that it provides a listing of 14 Mashur Muslich, KTSP Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan Dasar Pemahaman Pengembangan, Jakarta : PT Bumi Aksara, 2007, p.1 content to be learned but does not suggest methods, activities, and measurement for evaluation 15 Based on the draft of socialization of KTSP SMA MA tell about syllabus as follows; Silabus adalah rencana pembelajaran pada suatu danatau kelompok mata pelajarantema tertentu yang mencakup standar kompetensi, kompetensi dasar, materi pokokpembelajaran, kegiatan pembelajaran, indikator pencapaian kompetensi untuk penilaian, penilaian, alokasi waktu, dan sumber belajar. Syllabus is an interpretation from curriculum itself that contains of standard of competency SK and competency of standard KD. Standard of competency and competency of standard is a part of standard of content in a curriculum, exactly at the School-Level Curriculum KTSP. The latest syllabus of School Level Curriculum KTSP at SMA can be shown on appendix.

C. English Instructional Materials at Senior High School