Teacher’s Reactions towards Curricular Innovation

Abstract

In the last issue of rEFLections, there is an article about the curricular innovation at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (Watson Todd, 2000). This article shows how the curriculum innovation was conducted. Now that the curriculum innovation has been implemented, evaluation of the innovation is needed. This paper presents a case study of what one teacher thinks about the new curriculum. A diary was chosen as the instrument to gain in-depth information. The findings indicate that the teacher analyzed the materials or activities and also her students and her teaching situation since she felt more freedom to adapt the curriculum to the needs of her students than she had felt previously. In addition, there was an improvement in students’ attitudes, in their ability to speak, and in the way they presented. From the teacher’s perspective, the teacher must develop a sense of ownership and be involved in the curricular innovation as a designer and an implementer for the curricular innovation to be a success.