THE EFFECT OF AN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM USING CONTRASTIVE TEACHING IN DEVELOPING ATTENTION FOCUS & SCORING SKILL IN FOOTBALL

Contrastive teaching method is one of the methods used in education technology in the field of kinetic learning which saves time and effort in explaining the subject material. This method depends on determining general goals including behavioral goals (self-kinetic, perceptional and emotional) proportionate with age class and individual differences between learners. Football is one of the team sports that is practiced on the school’s level, clubs and universities. This game contains multiple basic skills which require teaching methods that achieve the educational purpose. Learning football depends on the educational situation that copes with the type of skill needed to be learnt as well as the teacher’s nature. Not every skill needs the same method, but the skill of scoring is difficult and complex to be executed. It needs a method which attracts the teacher’s attention and follows the mobilized learning especially when we feel that the difficulty of this skill may distract attention as a practical step, reducing concentration in learning a skill. Thus, the idea of merging learning methods related to attention focus as a practical step to be actual participation in learning difficult motor skills including the scoring skill in football in a way which attracts the teacher’s attention and raise the ability of his concentration and acquire and master skills. The study aims to identify the effect of the contrastive teaching method in developing attention focus and scoring skill in football. The study sample was chosen from students of the second year of the Faculty of Physical Education ? Faculty of Basic Education, Aljameaa Almostanseria. The researcher used the Burn-Enfimov test to measure attention focus and test technical performance and scoring in football, and then the researcher applied the prepared methodology including the explanation of the scoring skill after using the current optimal model in presenting the skill. Accordingly, the study sample applied this skill during educational units. The educational curriculum lasted for 4 weeks (2 units a week). The researcher concluded that the contrastive teaching method has a positive effect on learning the skill of scoring in football, developing attention focusing related to this skill and learning using contrastive teaching method priority in learning the skill of scoring in football and developing focusing attention related to this skill.