In the Classroom with Sarah Pasion, Our Teacher of the Year

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“Education is in the business of human beings.”

Ask our new Teacher of the Year, Sarah Pasion, what motivates her in the classroom, and she will always point to her desire to see students empowered through public education. Watch this Team Duval video to learn more about Pasion’s humble beginnings in the Philippines, and her vision for student success.

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Sarah Pasion/4th Grade Math and Science Teacher, Sadie Tillis Elementary School and 2019 Duval County Teacher of the Year

Hi, my name is Sarah Pasion, and I’m teaching 4th grade Math and Science in Sadie T. Tillis Elementary School.

(Mrs. Pasion with her students – “Ready? 1, 2, 3 – go!)

Teaching, you know, has the most of the most. It is the most challenging job, it is the most rewarding job, and it is the most difficult job to do.

(Students, in unison – “Eighteen-tenths, twenty-tenths.”)

(Mrs. Pasion – “Very good!”)

It’s not all about the money that you can get and that’s it, you know. It’s about touching the lives of the people. Because education is in the business of human beings.
They learn from me, but I also learn from them.

(Mrs. Pasion with a student – “Do you think that’s an efficient way to solve that problem?”)

I always want my students to develop this growth mindset, versus the fixed mindset. Because in this fixed mindset, these students just have the mentality that math is very hard.
If you’re going to help the students, to develop their growth mindset, they will learn how to persist and persevere, and making sense of the problem that they’re solving.

(Mrs. Pasion with a student – “How are we going to write that as a fraction?”)

I always want them, you know, not to rush through the problem.
And if you get the right answer, how can you prove that your answer is reasonable?
And always ask them what’s the importance, you know, of learning this and learning that. Because these students should know and should understand that they’re learning these things because these things will be very important in their life. Not only for getting a good FSA score, you know. This is something they can use in their everyday living.

(Mrs. Pasion in front of the class – “Give yourself pat back” … “Very good.”)

I didn’t even expect that I would travel in the United States of America.
I’d been in the Philippines for 20 years… even it’s a public education system, you know, you have to pay for it. So I’m just very fortunate that my aunt was supporting my parents to pay for my school supplies, and the other things that I needed in school.
So when I look back, students of today, they’re so lucky.
I want the students for today to see that education is a stepping stone to a better future.
It is a wealth that nobody can steal or take it away from you.
It is an opportunity for them to learn and develop the skill sets that translate outside of the classroom, and into their everyday lives.

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