Faculty of Sport Science & Recreation, University Technology Mara, Shah Alam, Malaysia
Online published on 24 February, 2015.
Growing importance of physical activity necessitates the adoption of team training-based framework to facilitate cooperation among adolescents. Team training enhances adolescent's participatory skills through information exchange during training. However, team participation extends beyond superficial cooperation between participants notion on common goals shared by team members. For effective participation, dissimilation of information and acquisition of skills among teams, it is essential that the cooperation for achieving shared goals is maintained. Team training functions as a collaboration of different entities working together to achieve a goal that could not be accomplished by individual participant. Participation in physical activity could be constructed in domains involving command and control of numerous teams interacting together. This approach provides structured training that allows the trainees to execute actions and decision in a realistic setting. Knowledge-base team training facilitates multiple use of training environment to achieve training goals and the sharing of information in a cooperative manner that improves proficiencies as teams follow the maxim “practice makes perfect” strategy. Adoption of team training by focusing on sharing of skills that could potentially improve adolescent performance during physical activity, interactions among team, enhance situational awareness, communication efficiency and effective team decision making skills is helpful in improving healthy well being of adolescents. In order to quantify the learning effectiveness of adolescent participation during physical activity, this paper evaluated the potentials of team training strategy on adolescent health development wellbeing, identified team training processes and validated the training components that were executed.
Physical activity, Team training, learning effectiveness, information sharing