English Curriculum Resistance: Curriculum Implementation Strategies

This assignment explores the challenges of implementing a new English curriculum, focusing on potential teacher resistance. The author identifies five key reasons for resistance: difficulty adapting to the new curriculum, the depth of the curriculum, the impact on both teachers and students, the effect on teaching effectiveness, and job insecurity. To overcome these challenges, the author suggests implementing the curriculum after discussion with teachers, formulating strategies to make students and teachers comfortable, and considering the needs of the teachers before implementation. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of an effective curriculum for effective learning and the need for adequate resources to support its implementation. This document can be found on Desklib, a platform providing AI-based study tools for students.

Possibility of resistance
in implementing
curriculum

INTRODUCTION
This essay is focused on the importance of curriculum in the school. Curriculum is
explained as the chapters and syllabus taught in a school to their students. Curriculum helps
students in understanding the concept and it also helps teachers to understand what they are
going to teach and how.
MAIN BODY
The five potential reason why teachers in school might resist the new English curriculum
are first reason is adaptability because it is difficult to for teachers to adapt to new curriculum
and it is very difficult for students also to adapt to new curriculum (Verge, Ferrer-Fons and
González, 2018). The second reason is the depth of the curriculum because it is hard to cover
lengthy syllabus. The third reason is the impact of the curriculum because it creates pressure on
both teachers and students and makes learning becomes difficult under pressure. The fourth one
is teaching effectiveness because the change in curriculum sometimes affect the teachers
effectiveness due to broad and long curriculum (Liddicoat, 2019). The fifth reason is insecurity
of job because change in curriculum sometimes need teacher with more skills which creates job
insecurity for the existing teachers in school.
These resistance can be overcome by takings different steps like implementing the curriculum
after discussing it with the teachers and formulate strategies to make students and teachers
comfortable with the new curriculum. The school have to know the needs of the teachers before
implementing the new curriculum.
CONCLUSION
The above essay concludes that the effective curriculum is important for the effective
learning and the curriculum can only be followed when the school have the required resources to
follow it. The curriculum set the standard of learning in school and it is important it should be
effective and efficient.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Liddicoat, A. J., 2019. Constraints on agency in micro-language policy and planning in schools:
A case study of curriculum change. Agency in language policy and planning: Critical
inquiries, pp.149-170.
Verge, T., Ferrer-Fons, M. and González, M. J., 2018. Resistance to mainstreaming gender into
the higher education curriculum. European Journal of Women's Studies.25(1). pp.86-101.