The Teach for India 2024 Fellowship
Application Deadline 11:59 PM IST, 4th Feb 2024
Teach For India is a nationwide movement of leaders dedicated to providing an excellent education for all children. These include both Fellows, who commit two years to teaching low-income & under-resourced classrooms, as well as Staff teams, who bolster these efforts through strategic support & organizational direction.
The Teach For India Fellowship is an empowering movement to revolutionise education in India.
As a Fellow, you gain invaluable teaching and leadership skills, join a vast network of like-minded educators, mentors, alumni who become influential change agents and advocates for educational equity, social progress.
Foster lifelong connections and collaborations, gain unique perspectives and create lasting impact
APPLY TO THE FELLOWSHIP IF YOU WANT TO:
REIMAGINE equitable, excellent education for all children.
LEAD through challenges and achieve ambitious goals.
GROW in your ability to reflect, continuously learn and problem solve, and thrive in diverse collaborations.
Why should you join Teach For India
Teach For India offers you the chance to make a real difference in tackling one of India’s most pressing challenges — educational inequity. By placing you in an underserved classroom, the Fellowship is an opportunity to impact the lives of entire classroom(s) of children. You develop your leadership skills which are critical in today’s dynamic global work environment. The Fellowship Program allows you to become a part of the solution and grow as a change agent in society. In short, the Teach For India Fellowship is an opportunity for you to:
Find Your Purpose
Develop an awareness of how poverty and inequity impacts India’s children. Discover your values, strengths and areas of development, passion and purpose.
Become a Leader
Deliver bold possibilities for students who may not otherwise have the opportunity to realise their full potential. Build concrete leadership skills of envisioning, stakeholder management planning, execution and reflection in challenging environments.
Join a Movement
Work with diverse stakeholders towards a shared vision. Become part of a movement of 4,000+ Fellows across India and countless more globally who will be your lifelong partners in this work.
Drive Change
Work at the grassroots level, and impact the lives of children and their families. Don’t just talk about the India you envision. Build an India free of poverty and filled with love.
Leadership Development, Training and Readiness
At Teach For India, we believe in imparting a holistic education that enables children to excel academically and gain a holistic education rooted in children’s personal growth. Students (and Fellows) are encouraged and empowered to explore their growth, enable others around them, and constantly strive to positively impact the community around them.
We believe that teaching is leadership. For our Fellows and Students to be leaders, we focus on building skills and mindsets through our Leadership Development Journey (LDJ).
Teaching experience is not required to be a Fellow. The Fellowship provides adequate training and development to help individuals learn the knowledge and skills of being a great teacher.
Trained adequately before start teaching
- The Fellowship begins with a residential training program (also known as Institute) where you will be exposed to curriculum, lesson planning, classroom facilitation and Student assessments, among other modules, sessions and keys to successful teaching.
- Additionally, you will embark on your leadership journey and explore your strengths, values and stakeholder engagement.
- You will also have a Programme Manager support and coach you to lead yourself and your students.
- Moreover, in the first few weeks, you will be placed in a classroom as a full-time teacher and receive ongoing on-the-job training to improve yourself continually.
The Teach For India Fellowship: Why and How
The Fellowship is a 2-year, full-time, paid commitment.
Fellows are placed in under-resourced English-medium classrooms in a government or low-income private school.
Fellows work as subject/class teachers for a set of 40-80 Students, where they:
- take responsibility for students’ academic and holistic learning outcomes growth.
- empower and enable the parents of Students.
- collaborate with school faculty and staff to create a conducive learning environment for all Students and learn about the grassroots challenges and enablers.
Fellows work closely with other Fellows and staff members to learn, facilitate, and enable each other’s leadership development and growth.
Fellows embark on their own leadership development journey where they:
- practice skills and traits of leadership through their daily work, reflective spaces, coaching conversations, and feedback loops.
- plan, execute and monitor their work while mobilising stakeholders regularly.
- drive a “Be The Change Project” – an entrepreneurial project rooted in solving daily challenges their Students encounter.
We look for:
- A deep belief in an equitable India and an excellent education for all children.
- Leadership potential and openness to learning.
- Courage – an orientation to set bold and ambitious goals for their children and themselves.
- Problem-solving abilities to navigate the many challenges they will encounter.
- Collaborative skills to work with diverse people towards shared goals.
Through the Fellowship, you will learn transferable leadership skills and traits, including the following:
- Connect: As you work closely with other teachers, parents, school staff and your Students, you will learn to listen deeply, empathise, and build strong relationships.
- Envision: As you envision a bold, new future for your children, you will learn to dream big for yourself and others.
- Plan: As you plan for Students at different levels with a wide range of needs and interests, you will learn advanced planning, organisational and time management skills.
- Execute: As you learn to teach Students to learn in ways that meet their varied learning styles, you will discover a range of communication, management and team skills.
- Reflect: As you pause to see where your Students have progressed and ask what you might have done better in and beyond class, you will learn to reflect deeply and make meaning of every challenge and opportunity.
Location and Placement
As a Teach For India Fellow, you will be placed in schools in underserved communities in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai or Pune. All Fellows will be required to reside in one of these cities during the period of the Fellowship.
As a Teach For India Fellow, you will be placed in grade 1 to 10 classrooms where you will teach all major subjects — including English, Mathematics, Social Studies and Science, except for regional languages. Although the mother tongue helps interact within our communities, it is not a necessary prerequisite, as you will be teaching in English medium classrooms.
Compensation and Benefits
As a Teach For India Fellow, you will be paid a stipend of INR 23,043 per month. If you are relocating from your home city, you will receive a City Compensatory Allowance (CCA) ranging from INR 5,300 to INR 10,000, depending on your placement city during the Fellowship.
Benefits
- A stipend of INR 23,043 per month.
- A housing allowance of INR 5,300–10,000 (depending on the placement city).
- Reimbursements for work-related expenses (e.g. school supplies on a per-child cost basis).
- Health insurance of up to INR 100,000 and access to free counselling.
- Casual and sick leave, national, regional and school holidays and a summer break.
- Access to our career fair after the Fellowship.
ALL IT TAKES IS TWO STEPS:
SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION
Online Application: Share your achievements, interests, experiences and motivations for joining the Teach For India Fellowship.
Phone Interview: A short 30-minute discussion may be required on your submitted Application.
ATTEND THE ASSESSMENT CENTRE
The Assessment Centre is an immersive experience into the life of a Fellow.
A chosen few are invited to participate in activities involving teaching, group work and critical thinking. You can attend it either online or in person.
