a. The Principles of KTSP
The objectives of applying KTSP for the students as set by national education and culture department
www.e-kebumen.net are to:
1 learn to be faithful and believe in God
2 learn for understanding and experiencing
3 enable to do and to act effectively
4 learn for living together in good relationship and being useful for others
5 learn for finding and building the active-creative-effective-pleased
characteristics. The teacher and or materials designers should regard the principle of
developing KTSP curriculum while creating teaching learning activities. The principles of KTSP according to Halim Fathanin 2006: 17 are discussed as
follows: 1
orientate to the ability, development, and needs of students and their surrounding environment
2 vary and integrate
3 notice to science, technology, and art growth
4 have relevancy with the students’ life necessity
5 coherence and cohesion
6 learn for life time
7 balance with national and regional business
KTSP basically emphasizes the student-centered activity in which the teaching-learning activities give the opportunity for the students to involve in the
learning process. The main idea of KTSP curriculum is to stimulate the students’ ability to understand and solve about reality in their daily life.
b. The Implementation of KTSP
Abdullah Yasid National Journal, February 10, 2007 states that the teaching learning activities are supposed to give chance for the students to explore,
find, do, and test their own understanding by asking about the object they learn. It means that the teachers are required to have good creativity and high initiative to
arrange their own teaching-learning strategies based on the students’ needs and students’ ability. This study then is hoped could inspire the teacher to become more
creative to make interesting teaching-learning activities in their class. KTSP theory is relevant to the purposes of this study to develop both the
students’ language skills and life skills especially their values of life, since the subject matter and teaching-learning materials are based on the students needs.
Besides, KTSP curriculum objectives consider the students’ language skills and characters development. Moreover KTSP curriculum takes into account the
principle of student-centered activity that gives the students chance to explore, find, do, and test their own understanding by asking about the object they learn. This
curriculum support the writer to design a set of supplementary English instructional materials using short stories focused on promoting the students’ values of life using
integrated materials.
2. Elementary School students
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