The existence of this currriculum is a new challenge for educators. Teachers need to learn how to use it in learning. This new curriculum also has many pros and cons. The teacher’s involvement is crucial to the learning process. It will impact students if they cannot adapt this curriculum. The purpose of this study is to find out teachers’ perception about Merdeka Belajar Curriculum at MAN 2 Kota Kediri. Data sources for this study were obtained from interview with English teacher at MAN 2 Kota Kediri. This research focuses on knowing the perception of English teacher related to Merdeka Belajar Curriculum, and to analyze the data this research uses qualitative descriptive to describe the transcript of interview. Interviews are also useful when researchers want to understand more in-depth information from respondents .The results show that Merdeka Belajar is enhancement of previous curriculum. It is just change of term. Two of informants have lack in understanding of Criteria for school in implementing Merdeka Belajar. The teacher also felt that Merdeka Belajar is not really supporting students in the case of Athlete class which has less interest in English subject. The teacher has their own learning approach depend on the teaching model and characteristic of students. Furthermore, allocation of teaching load at MAN 2 Kota Kediri depends on vice-principal of curriculum. So, the teacher just follow it. In addition, differentiated learning is how the teacher treats students in various characterictics and different learning style. The obstacles of differentiated learning are lack of student’s interest, and different characteristics. The solution to solve that is give them games in order to make them comfortable and enjoy the class. And the last is triggered question, It is same with “apperception” in previous curriculum, just change of term.

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