Abstract

• The aim of the study is to investigate the teacher’s attitude towards new curriculum and their planning for teaching. This study focused the teachers who are implementing the new primary curriculum from South District of Yangon Region. They were selected by using simple random sampling method. Descriptive survey method was used in this study. Research instrument is based on the Trainee Teacher Attitude Questionnaire developed by The University of Plymouth (2007). Total of (345) primary teachers participated in this study. According to this study, the results point out that the mean score of the attitude towards new curriculum in the teaching method strand of the primary teachers (41.26) is the highest and (37.69) of mean score in objective strand is the lowest. The results also point out that the teachers' attitude towards the planning for teaching is positively correlated with the attitude towards contents, objectives, teaching methods and assessments.