Visiting Assistant Professor & QUEST 3 Director of student Teaching and Internship

Department:
Curriculum and Instruction
Quality Urban Education for Students and Teachers
Transition to Teaching

Teaching

Office Number: 125 FH

Phone/Fax:
(713) 743-8640 , (713) 743-4990  (Fax)

Email: EileenW@westerman.com

Home Page:
http://www.coe.uh.edu/puma/westermancluster

Research Interests:

Gifted Education/Cooperative Learning/Multicultural Education

Recent Publications:

Westerman, E. R., Nath, J. L., Cohen, M. D., Gonzalez, E., & Jerkins, G. (2003). Appreciating human diversity. In J. L. Nath & M. D. Cohen (Eds.), Becoming an EC-4 teacher in Texas. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Cohen, M., Nath, J.L., & Westerman, E. (2005). Peer Support In Professional Schools - An Unexpected Boon for Teacher Education in I. Guadarrama, J. Ramsey, & J. Nath (Eds.), Advances in developing paradigms of change: Research in
professional development schools. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

Westerman, E., & Nath, J.L. (2005). Professional development
schools—A gift for the gifted. In I. Guadarrama, J. Ramsey, & J. Nath (Eds.), Advances in developing paradigms of change. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

Education:

B.S. in Elementary Education, The Ohio State University, 1968.
M.Ed. in Gifted Education/Administration, University of St. Thomas, 1994.