Journal Prompts
Court Notes provides a wide variety of journal prompts. An athlete’s journal provides you with a place to set goals, reflect, grapple with issues, keep track of training ideas, and record results as well as plan, scheme, ponder, rant, question, draw, and celebrate. The plain fact is that taking a few minutes to write amplifies your learning and helps you become a student of the game. These journal prompts will engage you and your teammates in different ways. And that difference is the beauty of such a learning activity. Below are four model prompts.
Court Notes provides a wide variety of journal prompts. An athlete’s journal provides you with a place to set goals, reflect, grapple with issues, keep track of training ideas, and record results as well as plan, scheme, ponder, rant, question, draw, and celebrate. The plain fact is that taking a few minutes to write amplifies your learning and helps you become a student of the game. These journal prompts will engage you and your teammates in different ways. And that difference is the beauty of such a learning activity. Below are four model prompts.
1.
What are your strengths as a volleyball player right now? When asked
to name a strength, some players said that they were…
Focused Dedicated Fit Inventive
Confident Competitive Motivated Brave
Responsible Positive Skillful Strong
List some of your strengths here:
Now write about your primary strength as a player…
2.
Think about an aspect of volleyball that you’d like to improve upon. Maybe you’d like to be a better passer or create more innovative offensive plays. Search YouTube or other websites for a video on what you want you’d like to focus on. Watch the video and write about what you observe:
Skill: _______________ Title of Video: ____________________________
–What new information did you learn?
–What might you try out or how might you adapt your play?
–What questions did you have after watching the video?
–What ideas might you share with a fellow player?
–What knowledge might you share with your coach?
–What other search terms might you use to find other videos in the future:
3.
Describe your most humiliating experience as an athlete. What might you have learned from this experience?
4.
In volleyball, there are things we can control and things we can’t. For example, we can’t control a referee’s call, our coach’s decisions, or what someone says about us. We can control the amount of sleep we get, the volume and quality of training we do, the diet we maintain, and the attitude we bring to a practice or match. Write about a time when you let something you could not control get the better of you. What happened? How did you react? What would you do now under the same circumstances?
5.
It’s often said that we are who we spend the most time with. Who are the three people, athletes or not, that you spend the most time with? In what ways do they influence who you are?
What are your strengths as a volleyball player right now? When asked
to name a strength, some players said that they were…
Focused Dedicated Fit Inventive
Confident Competitive Motivated Brave
Responsible Positive Skillful Strong
List some of your strengths here:
Now write about your primary strength as a player…
2.
Think about an aspect of volleyball that you’d like to improve upon. Maybe you’d like to be a better passer or create more innovative offensive plays. Search YouTube or other websites for a video on what you want you’d like to focus on. Watch the video and write about what you observe:
Skill: _______________ Title of Video: ____________________________
–What new information did you learn?
–What might you try out or how might you adapt your play?
–What questions did you have after watching the video?
–What ideas might you share with a fellow player?
–What knowledge might you share with your coach?
–What other search terms might you use to find other videos in the future:
3.
Describe your most humiliating experience as an athlete. What might you have learned from this experience?
4.
In volleyball, there are things we can control and things we can’t. For example, we can’t control a referee’s call, our coach’s decisions, or what someone says about us. We can control the amount of sleep we get, the volume and quality of training we do, the diet we maintain, and the attitude we bring to a practice or match. Write about a time when you let something you could not control get the better of you. What happened? How did you react? What would you do now under the same circumstances?
5.
It’s often said that we are who we spend the most time with. Who are the three people, athletes or not, that you spend the most time with? In what ways do they influence who you are?