Designing and Implementing Dramatic Theater Technique and its Effect on Self-Control and Academic Adaptation of Primary School Students

.Background and objective: Creative education methods strengthens students' deeper understanding of concepts, critical thinking and motivation to learn. Based on this, the current research aimed to design and implement dramatic theater techniques and evaluate their effect on self-control and academic adaptation. Method: This research was conducted using a semi-experimental method with a pre-test and post-test design and involving experimental and control groups, on 40 male students of the second grade of elementary school in Juibar city in 2023-2024, who were randomly selected and placed in two groups of 20. using Tanji  Self-Control Scale and Baker and Seriak's academic adjustment as measurement tools, mean and standard deviation were used as descriptive statistics, including mean and standard deviation, were used, and covariance analysis was performed to generalize the results. Findings: that the use of dramatic theater technique in primary education has a positive effect on students' self-control and academic adjustment. This effect was more evident in the case of academic adjustment (90%) and in the case of self-control (31%).. Conclusion: Dramatic theater is an effective way to improve self-control skills and academic adaptation of second grade students in science. Therefore, it is recommended that teachers use the dramatic theater technique in science classrooms if possible to make students' learning more sustainable, and more enjoyable.