The keynote presentation discusses the importance of passion for one's profession as a library media specialist. It provides examples of passionate educators and defines passion as a strong liking, desire, feeling, or conviction. The presentation emphasizes cultivating passion in students by helping them discover their own interests and intrinsic motivations for learning. It also stresses that educators must demonstrate their own passion for literacy, learning, and the field in order to inspire passion in students. Maintaining passion requires lifelong learning, creativity, risk-taking, and commitment to serving students.
1. Passion
For
Our
Profession
What’s LOVE Got To Do With It!?
Joquetta Johnson, Library Media Specialist MASL Afternoon Keynote Thursday, October 20, 2011
2. The only way to do
your best work is to
do what you love.
#stevejobs
3. “…to be a passionate teacher is to
be someone in love with the field of
knowledge, deeply stirred by issues
and ideas that challenge our world,
driven to the dilemmas and
potentials of the young people who
come into class each day…”
Robert L. Fried The Game of School
5. Honoring passion is more
than simply giving students
the technology, tools, and a
few books on the topics
they find interesting.
It is a commitment to
helping students to
discover for themselves –
the emotional reasons
linked to motivation that
drive us to want to study or
know something.
Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
6. A strong liking or desire…
Intense, driving,
or
overmastering
feeling
or
conviction
Ardent affection: LOVE http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/passion
7. “…if I want my
students to
become
passionately
literate people,
I, too, must be a
passionate,
literate person,
who reads, writes,
and learns
in front of them.”
Douglass Kaufman, passionate practitioner
11. A 21st Century Library
is much more than Library2.0. It is the
convergence of traditional librarianship values, the
coming-of-age of electronic information technologies,
the increased sophistication
in the demand of services, and the
professional commitment to self-renewal
with the objective of effectively meeting the
information user’s needs in the
time frame, place, and format
of their choosing.
-21st Century Librarianship Wiki
12. Shift Perception!
“We need to be more like Lady GaGa
than Lady Bird Johnson.”
“She is
innovative,
a risk-taker,
a change agent,
and an early adopter…”
Gwyneth Jones, The Daring Librarian
"Lady GaGa Librarians Unite!" Web log post. The Daring Librarian. 25 June 2011. Web. 2 Oct. 2011. <http://www.thedaringlibrarian.com/2011/06/lady-gaga-librarians-unite.html>.
14. “…those of us who are truly
devoted and loyal to the
lifestyle of glamour are
masters of its history.
Or, to put it more elegantly,
we are librarians.“
"I am obsessed with all the authors in the
library of pop culture." - Lady Gaga
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lady-gaga-declares-herself-librarian-of-glam-culture-20110512
15. Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
16. The passion for the “what” can
work to our disadvantage…
We can have so
much passion
for content
[stuff] that we
forget the
learner.
Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
21. …is more
than a skill
or
competency
that can be
trained
or
cultivated…
Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
24. Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
25.
26. Passion learners combine
fun, playfulness, and
discipline and,
at the same time,
accept the necessity for
endurance and
perseverance.
Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
27.
28. People
with
passion
are
driven to
pursue
and
create.
Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
29.
30. Eliciting deep
passions requires
strength. It takes
enormous strength
and willpower to
overcome
obstacles, but
passion
give us the
strength to
continue forward.
Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
31.
32. “…endurance
with an
edge of
obsession.”
Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
33.
34. Passionate
learners not
only ask a lot of
questions,
they develop a
questioning
disposition.
Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
35.
36. Passion
says…
I believe in this.
I own this…
This sense of ownership
becomes a responsibility –
the mission to pursue
excellent work.
Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
37.
38. Proficiency is
never achieved
when you are
passionate
about something.
It is a lifelong
pursuit.
Passion may
sleep, but it
never dies.
Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
51. Perhaps the most exciting
benefit that comes from
cultivating passion is the
enthusiasm it generates.
Passionate people inspire
hope and enthusiasm…
There’s an intensity, a
commitment, a PASSION
with which they approach
their work – it’s inviting,
tantalizing, alluring, and
inspiring all wrapped up
in the same package.
Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
59. You enjoy what you do and let
others know it. It’s always better
when you do what you love.
If you don’t love this new library
world, find something else to do.
Manifesto for 21st Century Teacher Librarians
61. Its concepts are just a
never ending story of an
open book of
experiences. But love
does lie in one's heart,
where memories are
but shadows lingering
in your soul. Love is
giving someone the
power to break your
heart, but trusting them
not to.
http://www.wikihow.com/Define-Love
62. Inspired by Psychologist Robert Sternberg Triangular Theory of Love
Passion
Triangular Theory of Love
64. Do you
have an
intimate
relationship
with our
profession?
65. Commitment is what
Transforms the promise into reality.
It is the words that speak
Boldly of your intentions.
And the actions which speak
Louder than the words.
It is making the time
When there is none.
Coming through time
After time after time,
Year after year after year.
Commitment is the stuff
Character is made of;
The power to change
The face of things.
It is the daily triumph
Of integrity over skepticism.
When I say I love you, I mean that I'm
committed to working to love you even
when it's hard.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=commitment&defid=997124
71. You seek
professional
development that
will help you grow
even if it is not
offered by your
school district.
Even if you don’t
get PD credit. You
can’t “clock” these
hours. Manifesto for 21st Century School Librarians
83. Wikipedia is evil…
Reading online is
not reading…
Cell phones and social media
are distractions…
Google is killing
critical thinking skills…
Printed books are better
than e-books …
Twitter is useless…
Blah… Blah… Blah…
85. …you look ahead for
what is coming down the
road.
You continually scan the
information landscape…
You plan for change.
Not for yourself, not just
for the library…
but for your learners.
Manifesto for 21st Century School Librarians
86. If you do not
develop strong
vision, your
vision will be
usurped by
the visions of
others.
You will not be
able to lead
from the center. Manifesto for 21st Century School Librarians
88. You don’t stop at “no.”
You fight for the rights of
students to have and use
the tools they need.
Access, Equity, Advocacy
Manifesto for 21st Century School Librarians
91. About Speak Up
National Initiative of
Project Tomorrow,
the nations leading
educational nonprofit
organization
dedicated to the
empowerment
of student voices in
education
92. With the increased
variety and depth
of the digital resources
available for classroom
use, the librarian is
emerging
as a critical player in
enabling the use of
these tools in the
classroom, taking on
the twin roles of
cheerleader and
exploration sherpa.
http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/speakup_reports.html
93. Enable
“…students to reach their
potential through increased
access to educational
resources and
experts that extend learning
beyond the capacities or
limitations of their school or
community.”
Source: http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/pdfs/SU10_3EofEducation%28Students%29.pdf
94. Engage “…students in rich,
compelling learning
experiences that develop
deeper knowledge
and skill development
especially the problem-
solving, creativity and
critical thinking skills so
highly desired for our world
today.”
Source: http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/pdfs/SU10_3EofEducation%28Students%29.pdf
95. Empower “…students to take
responsibility for their
own educational destinies
and to explore knowledge
with an unfettered
curiosity,
thus creating a new
generation of
life long learners.”
Source: http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/pdfs/SU10_3EofEducation%28Students%29.pdf
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98. Joquetta “The Digital Diva” Johnson
Library Media Specialist
Pikesville High School
Baltimore County Public Schools
Baltimore, MD USA
jjohnson@bcps.org
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102. Passion
For
Our
Profession
What’s LOVE Got To Do With It!?
Joquetta “The Digital Diva” Johnson, Library Media Specialist MASL Afternoon Keynote Thursday, October 20, 2011
Notas del editor
Not passive… overwhelming urge to engage, experience, and test their own capabilites – lifelong learners