Abstract
M.Ed. (Curriculum Studies)
Teachers with expert knowledge or skills can exercise a
leadership function as they use their knowledge or
skills to help colleagues and to further the progress
of the innovation knowledge and expertise. Although
innovation could be well structured, teachers still
need support in one or other form in order for
effective implementation to take place. Barriers to the satisfactory implementation of innovation includes:
the teachers' lack of curriculum-related knowledge,
ineffective flow of communication between innovator and
teacher and the state of facilities and equipment
available to implement change. The way in which the
innovation is to be introduced to the teachers who are
to be involved with it are likely to have profound
effects on the extent to which the innovation is
successfully implemented. A number of ways have been suggested.