Erin Hazlett, a mathematics teacher at Redding Middle School in Middletown, DE, has been teaching for seven years in the Appoquinimink School District as a mathematics and inclusion teacher. She currently teaches seventh-grade mathematics in regular, advanced, and inclusion classes. Ms. Hazlett holds certifications in middle school mathematics and elementary and special education.
Ms. Hazlett is described as possessing a passion for her students and a drive for success. She continually develops and refines her instruction practice, delivery, planning, and support structures for students, videotaping lessons so that she can reflect on her teaching and her students’ thinking. Through this process, she has identified at-risk learners and pinpointed where they needed help. She is credited with improving student achievement and teacher performance at Redding.
When frustrated parents call or e-mail Ms. Hazlett
about the “new math,” she helps them understand mathematical concepts so that they
can work with their children. She devotes her own time during lunch and after
school to her efforts to help every student.
Ms. Hazlett serves on the district’s Math Curriculum Committee on curriculum alignment, relating content to State standards-based tests. She also participated in a recent videotaping study of the mathematical thinking of at-risk students. Prior to this study, she had participated in the IEPI videotaping study for three years at the University of Delaware. She has also assisted in the creation of teacher's guides for the University of Wisconsin's Math in Context (MIC) series, and has been asked to participate in revising this year's teacher's guides for the MIC series.
In 2007 Ms. Hazlett was named Redding Middle School Teacher of the Year, and she has been nominated for that award in three other years.
Ms. Hazlett has a B.S. in education from the University of Delaware, where she also completed a Master of Instruction degree in 2007.