School Theater
School theater is part of the modern curriculum. It helps to create the necessary habits, skills, values and methods; to continue teaching; To participate in comprehensive development, which is one of the important activities that develop in students basic needs such as the need for play, the need for knowledge and the need for self-realization. These needs contribute to the refinement and development of pupils, playing enhances the student of exploration skills, and gaining information and knowledge of its mental capabilities, Also, self-realization gives students a sense that they can play an important role in society, and provide everything that is useful. The following are the most important benefits of school theater:
✅Make the students know the world around them and educate the students about their Arab heritage, history and civilization.
✅Raising students on high moral values such as honesty, truth, loyalty and love of cooperation.
✅Investing the students’ free time and energies, discovering their artistic talents and creative abilities, and developing sound positive trends.
✅Raising the achievement, cognitive and scientific level of students by providing valuable information.
✅Behavioral discipline of students by watching the social problems presented by the theater.
✅Transfer information and knowledge to students in an interesting manner
✅Developing the ability to express, deliver and listen, in addition to treating some aspects of speech defects or facing the audience.
✅Training students to speak standard Arabic.
✅Development of neuromuscular coordination in pupils.
✅Addressing some behavioral, psychological and social problems of students, whether they are audience or participants.
✅Spread the spirit of cooperation and teamwork and develop students’ creativity and imagination.
Thus, we find that school theater is complementary to the educational process, as it is not just a pleasure to fill the student’s void; It is an educational method; To convey the correct scientific information, and everything that is useful and successful to build his personality and entity.