The impact of special exercises using the (Wheatley's) strategy on learning to perform the underhand serve and reception skills in volleyball for students

Workers in the field of educational sciences seek to advance the level of their students, and one of the most important of these sciences is sports sciences, which have their own methods and techniques in line with the levels of each age stage, which requires the subject teacher to be well versed in all modern teaching methods and techniques. The research aimed to prepare special exercises in accordance with the strategy of Wheatley in learning the skills of transmission and receiving volleyball for students of Najaf High School for the distinguished, as well as knowing the preference of using (Wheatley strategy or the approach followed) in the research variables as well as to choose the school team participating in the Najaf Education Championship, and the researchers used the experimental approach with two control and experimental groups with pre- and post-tests and conducted two tests (transmission from the bottom, receiving the transmitter) and the research sample was represented by the fifth preparatory grade school students for the academic year 2023-2024, which numbered 24 students from a community of origin numbering 72 students, as they were selected in a simple random way (lottery) and were divided into two control and experimental groups, and each group (12) students The statistical bag (SPSS) was used to extract the results, and after presenting and discussing the results, it was concluded that there is a positive impact of Wheatley's strategy in learning the skills of transmission and receiving volleyball between the pre-post-tests for both groups as well as between the control and experimental groups and for the benefit of the experimental group, and the researchers recommend the need to use the Wheatley strategy on other games, and pay attention to updating teaching methods and techniques in line with age groups.