An Investigation of Teacher's Attitude and Inclinations towards Implementing the New Curricula

Decentralization is understood as greater participation of people and entities at different levels. Greater participation leads to a greater sense of ownership and by raising the legitimacy of curriculum, increase its implementation potentials. Catering for teachers‘ positive attitude towards implementing the new curricula, is the basis for encouraging decentralization especially when compatible or semi-compatible implementation format is desired. Teachers are the ultimate decision makers in the process of implementation andliterally determine the extent of the reform‘s actual impact. To further document this process, two investigations were carried out and the results are reported in this article. In the first investigation, 200 high school physics teachers from Fars province were selected as the sample and the second investigation included 540 middle school math teachers from Khozestan province. Both investigations found meaningful relationship between teacher‘s involvement in the reform process with their tendency towards implementing the required change.