THE EFFECT OF AN EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM USING THE JIGSAW STRATEGY TO LEARNING SKILLS OF VOLLEYBALL FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

The importance of understanding motor learning leads to learning and understanding the basic skills of each sporting event, which helps improve the precise motor performance of the skills and correct the player's style when performing the skill. Sports performance is one of the types of activities practiced by men in which kinesthetic learning has an important role, whether in training or competition, and it has a positive or negative impact on cognitive and functional mental processes at the same time. The importance of the research lies in preparing an educational curriculum according to the Jigsaw learning method to learn the most important service and reception skills in the game of volleyball, aiming to achieve more effective, elaborate, and economical learning in effort, cost, and learning time. As for the research problem, it was the lack of use of modern methods in learning service and reception skills, so the researchers considered The use of the Jigsaw educational method that was used in many theoretical scientific fields only and its introduction on the sports side and benefiting from it in practical application will be a new experience for this method in the practical sports side, and this will help in developing service and reception skills. The aim of the research is to identify the effect of the educational curriculum using the Jigsaw learning method on the learning and retention of service and reception volleyball skills between the two groups, pre and post. As for the most prominent conclusions and recommendations reached by the researchers, the exercises in a Jigsaw learning style had a positive impact on the development of skills in service and reception in the experimental research sample. Generalizing the curriculum of exercises in a Jigsaw learning style to teachers of secondary school students in Iraq in the development of skills in volleyball, codifying a curriculum of exercises in a Jigsaw style in proportion to the quality of the sample in terms of gender, biology, and training age, because these exercises have a high impact on effective learning.