The strategy of cooperative learning and its impact on learning to serve from below and receiving the serve in volleyball at orphanages between the ages of 9-12 years in Baghdad

Abstract

The importance of the study is justified in how to employ modern educational strategies that take into account the age group and maturity of this group and employ it in teaching some skills for games and others, especially the early age stages. On identifying the impact of educational units with the cooperative learning strategy in orphanages at the ages of 9-12 years in Baghdad for some volleyball skills, while the study assumed that there are statistically significant differences in the pre and post tests for some volleyball skills for the research sample, while the two researchers followed the experimental approach by designing one group with a pre and post-test, while the research was applied to a sample of female beneficiaries in the Al-Zuhour Orphanage House in Baghdad at the ages of (9-12), and they numbered 16 beneficiaries, while the skills of sending from below and passing from above were chosen as they are easy skills and fit with the sample. The two researchers prepared exercises aimed at learning the two skills under study. They were applied over the course of 8 educational units, each educational unit included 3 skills. While the cooperative learning strategy worked to increase the element of suspense during the learning process as well as equal competition between the sample members when applying the exercises. The study recommended the need to include the cooperative method in teaching sports skills in schools and for different age groups, the need to pay attention to the young age groups, as they constitute the basis for the correct building process for the individual