The Analysis of Indonesian First New Curriculum Launching and Implementation Towards Freedom of Learning Best Practice Empowering Character Building and Pedagogical Competence Sustainability

Abstract

Implementation of the curriculum is expected to encourage the improvement of the quality of management and educational processes in each academic unit, which leads to efforts to improve the quality of learning and education. The main aim of this study is to analyze both students’ and teachers’ responses towards Indonesian new curriculum implementation. The results of this study showed that the response of the Project/ Laboratory sampling school(Project or Laboratory sampling school) teachers’ to implement the Merdeka Curriculum (Freedom of Learning Curriculum) in the City/Regency of Bandung was in a positive category. There are several "best practices" that can be emulated in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of Motivating Junior High School teachers in the City/Regency of Bandung related to the implementation of the Merdeka Curriculum (Freedom of Learning Curriculum) in the form of activities " Teaching and Development Projects for strengthening the profile of Pancasila (State National Foundation) students, "Entrepreneurship and Local Wisdom Projects, "in house training on the preparation of KOSP at MGMP (Operational curriculum in educational units at Teachers’ regular meeting), "to analyze, describe and break down learning outcomes into Learning Outcomes Flows and create teaching modules and conduct formative, summative and portfolio assessments, and " apply the STEM-Science, Technology, Engineering approach, and Math " which was held at the Driving School.