Strategies for Overcoming Teacher Resistance to New Curriculum

This essay identifies five key reasons why English teachers might resist a new curriculum: the time-consuming nature of implementation, increased stress levels, excessive paperwork, the need for skill development, and the disruption of daily schedules. It then proposes strategies to overcome this resistance, emphasizing the importance of generating awareness through weekly preparation and staff meetings, encouraging open discussions, and allowing teachers ample time to adapt. By fostering a collaborative environment and addressing teachers' concerns proactively, school administrations can build a strong team of educators ready to embrace change and enhance student learning.

A- Providing five reasons why school’s English teachers could be resistant to the new curriculum
English Teachers in the academic university are responsible for several things, they act and
conduct each practice in ethical manner, which is quite essential for them to do so. Change form
of change in the school may put negative impact on their current activities and practices. It might
be a curriculum change, that teachers resist to accept because of key five reasons and these are:
The first reason behind resisting to accept new curriculum is a time consuming. It can
be said that this new change may require a lot of effort and time which is not possible for tutors
to do so for the more demand more things which is not possible to do on short-term period
notice.
According to new curriculum it is important for teachers to make possible changes in their
daily activities that affect negatively and contribute to increase the stress level that me but direct
impact on their mental as well as physical health. It is considered as second reason behind
resistance to new curriculum.
Lot of paper work is a third reasons that drive the attention of teachers to resist to adopt
new syllabus. It is also a time consuming act that needed more efforts and additional activities.
In order to conduct each activity according to new curriculum, teachers may need to
develop or improve skills that take too much time and because of that fourth reason they deny
to accept the change.
Fifth reason as Restructure daily schedule, require when a new syllabus is implemented
and formed, English teachers in the school are unable to do that and due to that they resist to
accept the fluctuation regarding the curriculum.
B- Explaining how would you overcome the change resistance.
The best way to overcome the resistance of English teachers to accept the change is weekly
preparation in term of generating awareness. School authority may conduct a staff meeting
before implementing schedule. Through this meeting they may take approach to make important
discussion with teachers to share information about change and what they need to do. They may
take initiative to do that 3 weeks earlier, which may give each tutor time and proper relaxation. It
may do not put any negative impact on their well-being that is quite important for teacher to take
better care of it. Group discussion may give them chance to start preparation regarding skills
development or improvement, for which they have a lot of time. By generating awareness about
curriculum change, high authority builds a strong team of tutors who are ready to accept the

change and perform accordingly in productive and excellent manner, which is quite beneficial or
them as well as children’s’ as they may get chance to learn something new and obtain
knowledgeable about useful topic. School administration may also take action to encourage
teachers about sharing their ideas regarding new syllabus that help to boost their morale and
allow them to be creative.