FORUM THEATRE TECHNIQUE: ENHANCING LEARNING IN MORAL EDUCATION CLASSROOM

Implementing instructional techniques designed to maintain student interest, especially in the Moral Education classroom is still a major challenge for teachers. The conventional classroom teaching seems difficult to attract the attention of students to engage themselves physically and mentally in the learning process. Therefore, this article introduces Forum Theatre as a technique that can be utilized to improve the effectiveness of teaching and enhance learning. After describing the framework of the Forum Theatre (develop a script, anti-model play, forum and intervention play), the article also describes how this interactive technique could enhance learning, its impact, and how it can be used as a teaching tool. The study also showed that Forum Theatre increases student engagement and their ability to explore real moral issues which they facing in their daily lives.