the teacher did greeting t o students. It was done by saying, “Good
afternoon, see you next meeting”.
D. The Curriculum
Curriculum is one of the important components that 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. Curriculum can be viewed as a program arranged by an educational
institution to provide sequentially organized knowledge, understanding, skills, and concepts for the learners. A significant aspect of curriculum is the
instruments to bring the needs of the learner together with the needs of society.
T he curriculum used in MTs N 8 Jakarta is the “KTSP” Kurikulum
Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan or School Level Based Curriculum. KTSP is a curriculum that gives teacher freedom to develop their syllabus, method, and
material based on students’ need and the environment. However, teachers cannot develop the component of teaching learning as they want. It should
be based on standard competence and based competence which is arranged by the government.
The “KTSP” is operated in MTs N 8 Jakarta; it has been developed into syllabus, the lesson plan, and annual program. It is develop and
implemented by the school based on the national educational standards. In terms of the development of the syllabus of English subject, the teacher tries
to elaborate the items of the Content Standards into the description of learning and teaching activities, of lesson materials, of a variety of
competency indicators, of time location, of learning and teaching resource, and even of evaluation instruments and techniques.
However, the application of KTSP is not extremely perfect, but the teachers and other elements of the school are trying to apply the true
“KTSP.” Because the syllabus is arranged by the teachers, so the method used in the school depends on the teacher and depends on students’ need.
According to the KTSP, the target of English learning at MTs N 8 Jakarta is the students can reach the functional level that is the students can
communicate by using English both in spoken and written form to solve daily problem.
KTSP Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan or School Level Based Curriculum, in which the basic language skill are taught and trained
intensively based on genre and functional speeches, genre is a division of particular form of art or utterance according to criteria particular to that
form. In KTSP curriculum standards is established by the government, but
the developing of the object, the way, the book and the steps are developed by the school itself, and the government makes national examination or UN
to measure the achievement and standard of it.
E. The English Textbook
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