TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVE ON INDEPENDENT CURRICULUM AT MADRASAH TSANAWIYAH NEGERI 1 PONOROGO

Abstract

Independent curriculum is the newest curriculum launched by the Minister of Education, Nadiem Makarim. As a new policy, it certainly raises a perspective from various parties including from teachers. This research was designed in the form of qualitative research and took the research location at MTsN 1 Ponorogo in this case, the data collection methods used were interviews, observation, and documentation. As for the data analysis techniques used are content analysis and thematic analysis. From the research it can be found that the results of the implementation of the independent curriculum include intra-curricular learning and Pancasila student projects, the teacher's perspective states that teachers agree with this curriculum because it gives teachers freedom in teaching and provides innovation in learning activities and the problems faced by teachers include difficulties in understanding the development of teaching modules and project modules, the prohibition of using mobile phones for students as a support for the implementation of learning activities and limited facilities in implementing Pancasila student projects.