Drama teachers have been asked to encourage their colleagues to teach their learners by using drama to help them comprehend complex subject content easily.
Kisii-based businessman Moses Okemwa said research has shown that using drama in the classroom to teach helps students learn socially, academically, and psychologically.
“The use of drama to instil important knowledge into our children has been in place since time immemorial, and I don’t see why we should not use it,” he said.
Okemwa, a professional architect, lauded the ongoing Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) because it integrates art with other disciplines to equip the learners with a holistic education that will enable them to fit into the ever-changing world of children with advanced technology.
Saying that drama is the art of using imagination to become someone or something other than oneself, he advised teachers to use drama to enable learners to move from their narrow thinking and embrace wider approaches that will make their learning easy as they navigate complex subject content in their studies.
Architecture Okemwa spoke to the teachers and students of Bobaracho Secondary School in Nyaribari Chache Constituency during the Good Friday celebration at Humphrey Hill House in Kisii County.
He lauded the school for training its students well until they qualified for the just-ended National Drama and Film Festival hosted in Nakuru County.
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He promised to support any school in the region that qualifies for future National Drama and Film Festivals.
“We started with Ayora Mixed in South Mugirango and are now with Bobaracho School in Nyaribari Chache. We hope to cover the county at our own pace,” he said.
The Occasion was attended by Teachers’ Service Commissioner ( TSC) Rose Sereti and her husband, Zablon Sereti; former Kisii County Director of Cultural and Social Services Nyambane Obino; Kisii University Chief Librarian Lilian Gisesa; and Kisii TV deputy CEO Johnson Nyandika.
Mrs Sereti reminded teachers to use the existing elders when they compose training and folk songs for their dramas to give their items proper background relevance and authenticity to the consumers—the audience.
“Being conversant with the cultural and emerging issues depicted in your work will enable you to deliver a worthy performance on stage and gain admiration and confidence from the audience, ” she said.
During the well-attended meeting, her husband, Mr Zablob Sereti, took the blended meeting of the young and old through the history of the community’s heroes, like Sakagwa Ngi’ti, the great prophet, Otenyo Nyamaterere, the great colonial fighter, and the region’s political leaders since independence.
The day-long Good Friday celebration ended with reminiscing of traditional prayers and chants from elder Ondieki Moiruki amidst frenzied electrified traditional dances that characterised the monthly traditional conversations at Humphreys Hill house on the outskirts of Kisii town.
By En0ck Okong’o
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