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Character education strengthening occurs not only theoretically in the classroom but also through habituation in daily life. Using drama as a method for character education can be effective because drama is closely linked to character development. This article aims to discuss the affirmation of drama appreciation learning in relation to the importance of character education for fourth-semester students at STKIP Darussalam Cilacap. The researcher applies a literature review methodology, focusing on the use of texts and library literature as primary sources. The results indicate that regular drama appreciation learning activities have a positive impact on students' development. The findings highlight the significant contribution of drama appreciation learning to character education at STKIP Darussalam. It teaches students moral values, ethics, and responsibilities. Additionally, interaction during drama activities plays a key role in enhancing students' tolerance towards differing opinions, backgrounds, and cultures, creating a holistic educational environment. The presence of drama as an art form, both at the elementary school level and as part of higher education curricula, should impact by reflecting the reinforcement of character education in the digital era, which increasingly overlooks essential foundational aspects of life, such as efforts to build good personal and moral character. 

Development to achieve educational goals certainly leads to instruments that are responsible for the implementation. The teacher is the instrument, which is required to bring out all the potential possessed, both knowledge and review of self-aspects as a reflection that should be imitated. Thus, it is absolutely necessary to have a complete personality professionalism and role model points that are certainly inherent in every teacher. Teachers are required to maintain stability in speaking and acting as a reaction to the practice of integrity values that do not know place, time and situation. The personality in question does not create a chasm to limit oneself in interacting with others, but how the whole existence can be a role model. School is a place of interaction in the daily life of a teacher, here the teacher does what is his responsibility and obligation in fostering students (towards the desired goal). The implementation pattern certainly requires good performance starting from personality, discipline and how a teacher can be relied on and become a role model for students. The moral integrity of students is the expectation of a teacher, of course. In relation to this review, a teacher, especially a PAK teacher, is required and of course has a very strategic and core role in the implementation of the process of forming moral integrity as a role model for students.