Role-play and its role in developing educational skills among primary school students

Role-play has received special attention from teachers and educators. Psychologists have been interested in play since an early age, so it has become an independent science. Role-play is considered an activity and a stimulant provided to children to stimulate their motivation and desire to continue educational activity. Role-play is an effective way to develop students educational skills. It inspires students with a spirit of activity and makes school life attractive. It is characterized by aesthetic values emanating from the elements of composition and preparation of the theatrical performance, such as decoration, singing, dancing, and expressive movements. Here, it becomes clear that play has value in discovering new situations and trends in the lives of students, which makes them more able to focus on the experience of experience in its broadest forms, to reflect to us this expression of their thoughts, the development of their verbal abilities, and the use of imagination that they have new skills that help them overcome many of the things they face, whether in the method of education. Or in other aspects of life. As for the structure of the research, it was divided into four chapters. The first chapter dealt with (the methodological framework), while the second chapter dealt with (the theoretical framework) for role-play. It included two sections: the first section, the concept of role-play, its characteristics and goals, and the second section, which dealt with role-play and the means of education. Then, the previous studies and the indicators that resulted from the theoretical framework were examined. The third chapter dealt with the research procedures, while the fourth chapter included the results and their discussion. The researcher reached several conclusions, the most important of which was paragraph (1), which obtained an agreement rate of 100%. Here, it becomes clear that role-play is important in developing creative thinking in children and increasing students awareness of the school curricula.