MENDULANG IMBAS SALAH KAPRAH, SALAH GARAP

Abstract

This article reviews that in fact the most fundamental and crucial aspect of education is the quality of teachers. So efforts to improve teacher quality must be a top priority over the interests of others. The common perception circulating that the curriculum is everything but the teacher as the translator of the curriculum substance does not get a meaningful governor. As a result, a curriculum that is designed in such a way is estimated not to be able to fully carry out its functions. Misguided, which then leads to wrong work. This article is described using literature studies and documentation. There are three main things that are studied, namely, First, the data that explains the achievement of the teacher professionalism program that encompasses academic qualifications, teacher certification, teacher professionalism programs and teacher competency tests are fairly low which then has the potential for the effectiveness of curriculum implementation in the field. Secondly, some problems that arise due to the lack of teacher professionalism is the implementation of the objectives, content, methods and evaluation of the curriculum not as expected. Third, the flow of education improvement should start from improving teacher quality. In addition, in the formulation of the curriculum should be at the same time formulated what teacher competencies required in the curriculum design. Then, the guidelines are prepared for teachers in the form of steps that can be passed by the teacher in implementing the curriculum. As a result, not ignorant of efforts to improve the quality of teachers so that students can touch the essence of the curriculum that has been designed.