约翰·耶尔丁从1994年开始培养希望学院的学生成为教师，当时他在世界杯荷兰vs厄瓜多尔走地公共教育领域从事广泛的工作，加入了希望教育学院。他拥有丰富的经验:25年来，他在小学、初中和高中任教，担任过小学、初中、初中和高中的校长。其中有16年，他还在西密歇根范布伦县的一个夏季移民教育项目中教书并担任管理人员。He has chaired the Hope College Department of Education since 2016.

John teaches Perspectives in Education, Foundations of Education, the Phelps Scholars first-year seminar, the department’s Student Teaching Seminar, and Encounter with Cultures, a course that introduces students to issues related to diversity. In addition, he co-directs the Hope Comes to Watts May Term, a travel-study course that gives students from any department on campus the opportunity to work with schoolchildren in a culturally diverse urban setting. He developed a June Term course in 2018 focused on the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s, which includes an eight-day tour of historic sites in the South. His engagement in diversity initiatives on campus has also included serving on the advisory boards of the Phelps Scholars and Hope College Upward Bound programs.

Areas of expertise

• Secondary education
• Diversity
• Rural education
• Educational leadership
• Urban education

education

• M.Ed.L, Western Michigan University, 1987
• B.A., social studies, Michigan State University

honors and awards

• The Motoichiro Oghimi Global Courage Award, Hope College, 2016
• Appointment to endowed chair as Susan M. and Glenn G. Cherup Associate Professor of Education, 2013
• Provost’s Award, Hope College, 2009
• Vanderbush-Weller Development Fund award for positive impact on students, Hope College, 2011

outside the college

John served on the West Ottawa Board of Education for six years. He also has served on the boards of the Alliance of Cultural and Ethnic Harmony and the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Holland.