Deadline: 20-Nov-22
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.
Mission: At Teach For India, they believe leadership for education is the solution. They are building a movement of leaders who will eliminate educational inequity in India.
Commitments
- Each Fellow is assigned a classroom in one of Teach For India’s placement cities, and charged to teach academics, values and mindsets and to give their students the access and exposure they need to reach their personal, long-term visions. Their framework for leadership at Teach For India is called the Leadership Development Journey, and is centered around three commitments:
- The Commitment to Personal Transformation: Exploring who you are, your purpose, and striving to be a better person.
- The Commitment to Collective Action: Building relationships and organizing partners to multiply and deepen their impact.
- The Commitment to Educational Equity: Deepening their understanding of educational equity and committing to attaining it.
Fellows work on these commitments in and beyond the full-time lab of their classroom, where they relentlessly focus on moving their students towards “path-changing” learning, the highest level of their Student Vision Scale.
By growing in the 3 commitments, and embedded with real life leadership experiences in the classrooms and communities, Fellows are ready to be lifelong learners and leaders for greater impact on children.
Impacts
- 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.
- Find promising leaders: They recruit and select high-potential candidates to serve as Fellows who commit to teach for two years, full-time, in India’s low-income schools.
- Impact schools and communities: Their Fellows not only provide their students with a holistic education, they also impact their schools and communities through targeted initiatives.
- Cultivate lifelong leadership: Faced with diverse challenges in their classrooms and schools. Their Fellows develop into leaders who complete the program committed to working relentlessly towards realizing educational equity.
- Infuse Alumni across puzzle Pieces: Serving in positions of leadership and influence at every level of the system, their Alumni are impacting children and effecting change across India.
Eligibility Criteria
- In their 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.
- Their Fellows must possess skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, setting and achieving ambitious goals, 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.
- They look for diversity in their cohort. Their Fellows come from across the world representing over 300 college campuses and companies, with varied life experiences, expertise and professional experiences. Their cohorts include college graduates, working professionals, and entrepreneurs.
- In order to be eligible to apply to the Fellowship, 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 2023, and this must be your first application to the 2023 cohort of the Teach For India Fellowship.
- Note that prior teaching experience is not necessary to apply to the Teach For India Fellowship. They provide rigorous training to all Fellows to set them up for success in their classrooms.
For more information, visit https://www.teachforindia.org/