PD. Let's be honest, thanks chatGPT for helping me in writting this thread.

CC. @uvic-ucc.cat @udivulga.bsky.social

🧠 Our main takeaway: teamwork is learned in conversation, not just in drills. Coaching is not only about teaching skills — it’s about guiding meaning and culture. Full paper again 👉 frontiersin.org/articles/10....
#YouthSport #Coaching #Teamwork #Research

🔐 How to unlock teamwork?
1. Teamwork is learned, therefore might be taught.
2. It is not trained only on the court, but also built in conversation.
3. Teamwork is not what coach has in mind, but what the team defines.

🎯🫵 What this means for coaches & educators:
• Make dialogue part of your sessions
• Use structured reflection
• Define what teamwork sounds like
• Value cooperation as much as competition

📈 Over time, players’ talk changed showing learning. They reflected more, supported one another, and took responsibility. Teamwork became a #sharedmeaning that emerged through #language, #interaction and culture

🗣️ The coach’s role was key. By structuring conversations and applying cooperative learning principles — interdependence, accountability, promotive interaction, social skills & group processing — he defined the #learningzone for teamwork.

💡 At first, cooperative activities alone didn’t lead to teamwork. Players lacked a shared understanding of roles, accountability and constructive communication. It became clear that teamwork has to be guided and co-constructed (obviously, teamwork is learned & has to be taught)

🔍 We followed a #youthsport basketball team (13-yr-olds) over a full season. By analysing 69 locker-room conversations, we examined how teamwork develops through #communication between coach and players, using a #sociocultural lens.

A big thank you to my co-authors Lurdes Martínez-Mínguez, Carolina Nieva, and Laura Arnau-Sabatés
#Education #TeacherTraining #ProjectBasedLearning #HigherEducation #EarlyChildhoodEducation cc @uvic-ucc.cat @udivulga.bsky.social

We believe this research provides valuable insights for curriculum development and teacher training programs (#inductionprograms). Looking forward to discussions on how we can further innovate education!

Key findings:
✅ PBL enhances self-perceived professional skills across multiple domains.
✅ Vocational students showed different and higher competence perception.
✅ Real-world collaborations between universities and schools are crucial for meaningful teacher training.

This study explores how Project-Based Learning (PBL) can bridge the gap between theory and practice in teacher education by integrating real-world experiences in Early Childhood Education (ECE). We found significant improvements in students’ perception of professional competence