Transformational Teaching Fellowship (TTF) : Teach For India

Teach For India is on a journey to reach an India free of poverty and filled with love by ending educational inequity in our country. Fourteen years into our journey we are a movement of 4600+ Alumni working at all levels of the education system, who are reaching 1 in 10 children across the country. These Alumni have graduated from our two-year Fellowship Program where they taught in under-resourced classrooms to put ~38,000 low-income children on a different life path. Today, we have ~940 Fellows and are the largest pipeline of driven, skilled talent into the educational ecosystem in India.

In 2022, we embarked on Phase 4, our fourth strategic phase. We have a bold and ambitious ten-year journey ahead of us that aims to grow 50,000 leaders, who will work collectively, and with love, to transform the lives of 1 in 10 low-income children in our regions, through an education that unleashes the potential of self, others and India. In this decade, five key priorities will lead us to this vision.

• Strengthen our core Fellowship to build strong teacher leaders who provide an excellent and equitable education to our children and continue to do so beyond the Fellowship
• Scale our impact by strategically introducing additional Fellowships as alternative pathways for leadership development
• Match the Alumni of our programs at an intersection of their interests and the needs of the system and our children
• Advocate for key issues that impact educational equity, and engage 3.5% of the population in the movement for educational equity
• Act collectively with our Alumni to learn about and address key issues in our regions.
• Our work will only be completed when we have built a movement of leaders that is large enough to ensure that every child in India attains an excellent education.

We pride ourselves as being a passionate, idealistic, mission-driven team of individuals. We’re committed to learning and excellence in our roles, and to being deeply rooted in our core values.

What Teach For India Can Offer You
The opportunity to be part of one of the most established and visionary movements in the education sector in India which is at a pivotal point in terms of expanding its scale and outreach across the nation and working with changemakers across the country.

• A challenging yet flexible workplace in which every individual employee’s Staff journey is tracked for excellence and leadership development.
• A work environment in which employees’ holistic well-being is a core priority, enabling people to be their best selves.
• Access to connections and resources from the global Teach For All network that includes partner organizations spanning 50+ countries across 6 continents.

Remuneration that is competitive within the top quartile of the Indian NGO pay scales, and a benefits package that includes extensive medical insurance and maternity coverage for both parents.

Position Summary
The Transformational Teaching Fellowship offers a pathway for Alumni teachers to keep getting better towards advancing the learning and leadership of children growing up in low income communities.

Research across the globe tells us that spending a third and fourth year of teaching not only has an exponential impact on deepening an individual’s teaching practice, but also better prepares them for leadership positions within schools. Graduating Transformational Teaching Fellows will Lead India through teaching and/or go on to build capacity in others towards advancing student learning and leadership through roles such as lead teachers, teacher trainers and school leaders.

Transformational Teaching Fellowship (TTF) is designed for graduating Fellows and Alumni who want to:

Deepen their practice as a teacher in the short-term (also positioning them towards teaching and leadership positions within schools in the medium- & long-term)
Create significant impact with students directly, building further on what they learned during the two years of the TFI Fellowship Become part of a passionate community of excellent practitioners who will push their own, and each other’s, thinking and work in this area

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

TTF Fellows will take up the full teaching load for the classrooms they are placed in
Co-create and set aspirational holistic goals for students for the year and design and execute a rigorous plan (keeping in mind that learning happens both inside and outside the school hours) that will help students achieve significant growth in their learning and leadership.

• Write an Action Research paper that outlines impact and learnings from a key shift in own practice
• Share practice regularly with current Teach For India Fellows towards supporting their growth and learning. This might be through anchoring communities of practice, inviting Fellows to observe you teach, designing resources that can be used across the city/ Fellowship etc.
• Highly recommended: Accredit competence in teaching through passing CENTA Teaching Professionals Olympiad and/or completing BEd/MEd/ iPGCE etc.

TENURE & STIPEND

• This opportunity is for the 2024-2025 academic year.
• Transformational Teaching Fellows will join the Fellowship at the beginning of the academic year in the city they are placed. The Fellowship will close at the end of the year in the city in which they are placed e.g. June-April.
• Transformational Teaching Fellows will receive a stipend of Rs. 33,333 per month plus housing and travel allowance (same as the TFI two-year Fellowship)

SUPPORT

Within the placement city 

• Transformational Teaching Fellows will have a city PoC to help navigate logistical issues and support with initial placement and school-level issues.
• Transformational Teaching Fellows will be part of a school team so they have a peer group for day-to-day thought partnering and support through regular school team meetings and informal touch points.

Nationally 

• Transformational Teaching Fellows will be managed directly by the Transformational Teaching Fellowship Lead who will offer personalised feedback and coaching towards supporting TTF’s to meet their goals.
• Transformational Teaching Fellows will operate as a community of practice. Together we will create learning experiences, share practice and read to advance our understanding of student learning.
• Exposure to local, national and global best practice through i) opportunities to engage in KER/TIJ Learning Loops and City Discussions ii) access to latest
• Teach For India Content/Ped National training iii) access to opportunities created by partner organisations such as CENTA, Teach For All Global Learning Lab, Createnet etc.

Optional

Transformational Teaching Fellows may consider enrolling in a distance learning B.Ed. Program (such as IGNOU, JNU, etc).

SELECTION & MATCHING

The Transformational Teaching Fellowship is a high autonomy, low support opportunity designed to allow individuals to explore teaching and learning with high levels of depth. As a result, both graduating Fellows, current TTF and Alumni will need to go through a selection & matching process, mostly geared to ensure strong alignment and fit with the program and intended outcomes.

• The Transformational Teaching Fellowship 2024-25 will have a cohort size of approx. 20 TTF’s placed in any of Teach For India’s 8 cities.
• Fellows will be placed in classrooms, within their city of choice, that can best help us to reach our cross regional priorities. This means in some cases Fellows may not be placed in the classrooms of their Fellowship
• The Transformational Teaching Fellowship 2024-25 is a nationally led and supported Fellowship. The selection process will be designed by the Training and
• Impact team and executed nationally with the support of City Leadership.

Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

• Bachelor’s Degree from any stream
• Completion of the two-year Teach For India Fellowship (as of 31 May, 2024)
• Evidence of leading a significant shift in student learning/leadership outcomes.
• Strong desire to continue teaching and/or take on roles such as lead teacher, teacher trainer, school leadership in the future

Note: We want to hear your unique voice and perspectives through the process, hence all applicants are expected to personally author statements of purpose/essays in the application form. Sole use of AI or Chat-GPT based tools may lead to disqualification from the process.