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Many selective courses are offered in the basis education with the aim of developing the individual and social skills of students. One of these lessons is the drama. This study identified the benefits that optional drama courses provide to students according to teachers’ opinions and the problems encountered in the application phase of this course. The method of research is designed as a study of the facts. For this, a face-to-face conversation was held with 15 Turkish teachers who conducted drama lessons in high school. Interviews with teachers have been analyzed. According to the data obtained, the drama classes have been determined to increase students’ interest in school and inter-class communication, to improve their communication skills, to reduce the pressure they experience on school classes, to relax them. The teachers also said they discovered some of the individual talents their students could not realize in Turkish lessons, thanks to the drama lessons. Teachers pointed out that despite the benefits that drama courses provide students, they have been difficult to process drama courses in schools. Teachers are required to do lessons without getting drama leadership training. Furthermore, the lack of curriculum plans and teaching guidelines prepared by the Ministry of Education and/or other private publishers for teachers, makes the course work more difficult. Therefore, in schools, the processing and content of this course is different from each teacher in a different understanding, content and style. Furthermore, the lack of enough application tools and drama workshops to process the drama course in schools makes the teachers difficult the course process and decreases the performance of the course.

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