Please consider the entire team at Windesheim Honours College's study program in "Global Project and Change Management" for the Sustainable Teacher 2022 award. Our team offers students a small-scale and intensive study program; we make deep connections with students in all four years of the program. Thus, all of us meet the Sustainable Teacher criteria, as I describe below.
First, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are at the heart of our study program and integrated into our courses and minors from Year 1 through Year 4. Moreover, we have inspired other programs at Windesheim to think about the SDGs. For example, we organized an SDG festival in 2021 for Windesheim staff and students and beyond (program below). Plus, we held our first Windesheim-wide SDG event in 2019. https://www.windesheim.com/pages/sdg-programme
In Years 1 & 2, our students work on projects with external clients on sustainability-related projects. They also have free credits to explore their personal and professional development, in the context of the SDGs.
By Year 3, students explore an SDG-related topic of their choice in our Value Creators semester. They do this in small teams and in a network context, by following our 4-E Model of Exploring, Engaging, Elaborating, & Evaluating. Although Value Creators aims to contribute to the work of the networks they connect with, it is also about the students journey into a topic they care about. https://www.valuecreators-whc.com/blog .
In Year 3, students also participate in another semester long minor, Managing Projects in a Globalized World, where they go abroad to work with a international client on a project connected to one of the SGDs. Some students may stay in the Netherlands and work with a client focused on a global issue, such as integrating newcomers or offering respite to human rights defenders from around the world. By Year 4, they are off to study electives at universities of their choice and then complete a research internship with an NGO, government, or business on topics of their choice. For their internships, most students look into issues related to SDG topics.