Ruth Tucker

Professor Tucker began her teaching career in Michigan and later taught in elementary and middle schools in Indiana and California, as well as Barranquilla, Colombia; and Abidjan, Ivory Coast. She also served as a resource specialist, director of resource learning center, and Associate Director of the Reading Center at the University of Alabama while earning her doctorate. Her Ed.D. was in Reading and Elementary Education. Professor Tucker received the Most Outstanding Student Award in Reading and Elementary Education. Dr. Tucker has two daughters who graduated from Westmont. Her daughter Kimberly is an elementary teacher and daughter Lori is a secondary English teacher. When Professor Tucker is not planning for her classes or working on documents for the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing she enjoys spending time with her five grandchildren and playing in the Ventura County Band. Professor Tucker states that one of the most enjoyable and rewarding things about her job is assisting in the development of a new cohort of capable/competent teachers yearly who will bring about change in the lives of future generations of children. She says with deep conviction, “No one has a better job than I…I love it!”