A Character-based Local Curriculum Development Model in Vocational High School (A Study of Vocational High School Curriculum Development in Indonesia)
Daftar Isi:
- The goal of operating a Vocational High School (VHS) is to prepare its students to work in their own fields, however in fact most unemployment is from the graduation of this kind of school. Therefore, the curriculum of this school should be developed on the basis of the local potency in order to prepare its students to be able to work, and also to make them able to create locally-based new jobs opportunities and to grow their care, pride, and love of their community and their country. The objective of this present research is to develop a character-based curriculum development model in VHS. So, an R&D method was employed, where the procedures of this model development involved many VHS teachers, from the model design to the feasibility test of the model through the model feasibility test. The model feasibility test was administrated in two VHS with respondents of 20 teachers.On the basis of the test result, the model is feasible with the average level of the ease of implementation at schools of 78.12. This level is based on the respondents’ evaluation ranging the range from 2.41 – 3.97, where 65% stated that this model was easy to implement, and 35%, very easy. However, the stages at the syllabus development and learning design are considered to be more difficult, but the difficulty is insignificant compared with the stages encountered in the orientation, evaluation and implementation.