Deadline: 6-Mar-22
The 2022-24 Teach For India Fellowship Program is now open for India’s brightest and most promising youth, from the nation’s best universities and workplaces, to serve as full-time teachers to children from low-income communities in under-resourced schools.
Through two years of teaching and working with key education stakeholders, the Fellows are exposed to the grassroots realities of India’s education system and cultivate the knowledge, skills, and mindsets needed to attain positions of leadership in and beyond education, working collectively to build a vibrant movement for educational equity across India.
The Teach For India Alumni movement is a growing community who work towards educational equity at all levels of the education system. Alumni start their own organizations or hold key positions of leadership, both within and beyond the education sector, enabling them to impact the lives of millions of children collectively.
Teach For India’s model starts with a selective recruitment and selection process, focuses on ongoing teacher training and leadership development, measures the impact of students and the leadership growth of Fellows and culminates in the impact Alumni have on the education system.
Who do they look for?
- The Fellows must possess skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, grit and have a high bar of expectations for themselves and others. They must demonstrate interpersonal skills through their interactions with various stakeholders, along with academic excellence.
- In the Fellows, they look for leaders to join a movement towards educational equity. Aside from passion and commitment to the movement, they look for leadership potential that can develop through the two-year Fellowship.
- They look for diversity in the cohort. The Fellows come from across the world representing over 300 college campuses and companies, with varied life experiences, expertise and professional experiences. The cohorts include college graduates, working professionals, and entrepreneurs.
- In order to be eligible to apply to the Fellowship program, you must be an Indian Citizen or an Overseas Citizen of India, you must have graduated with a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree by June/July 2022, and this must be your first application to the 2022 cohort of the Teach For India Fellowship.
Eligibility Criteria
- The recruit the country’s most promising college graduates and working professionals.
- Fellows complete a rigorous, multi-stage selection process where they are evaluated for core competencies that are important for success within and beyond the Fellowship.
- In the past decade, 120,000 people have applied to the Teach For India Fellowship.
- The selectivity ranges from 6.00-8.36% competing with leading universities.
For more information, visit https://www.teachforindia.org/