The Teach For India 2025 FELLOWSHIP

Application deadline 11:59 PM IST, 1st SEPT 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.

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.

Teach For India Fellowship entail?

• 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.

Over the years, we have seen 4,500+ individuals complete the Fellowship. In the cohort, one will experience the following:

• Professional diversity – We have seen applicants from over 500 universities and 300 organisations apply to the Fellowship.
• We have recent graduates and postgraduates from diverse degrees and Institutions such as LSR, Hindu College, Daulat Ram, Christ College, Anna University, Fergusson College, St. Xaviers, Jadavpur University, TISS, Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi University, Symbiosis, Wellesley, Illinois Urbana Champagne, Franklin & Marshall, etc.
• We attract ‍‍professionals pivoting from corporate jobs (who want to #DoMore than a 9-5 job) or other social sector professionals looking to work at the grassroots. These include professionals from Aditya Birla, Citibank, Axis Bank, Deloitte, E&Y, Salesforce, TCS, Zensar, Amazon, Infosys, ICICI, Make A Difference, etc.
• Some are entrepreneurs keen to grow their leadership skills and explore the grassroots of India through the medium of the Fellowship.‍
• Age diversity – Our Fellows range from the age of 22 to 55. It is never too late or too early to begin creating social impact and driving sustainable change in the world, no matter what stage of life you are at.‍
• Regional diversity – Our Fellows come from all over the country, and we have some foreign nationals of Indian origin too. We have Fellows from varied cultural backgrounds.

The Teach For India Fellowship is an empowering movement to revolutionise education in India.

As a Fellow, you will gain invaluable teaching and leadership skills and join a vast network of like-minded educators and mentors. You will become a part of an Alumni network of influential change agents and advocates for educational equity.

Foster lifelong connections and collaborations, gain unique perspectives and create lasting impact.

Fellow Alumni share their experiences and journey with the Teach For India Fellowship:

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.

Benefits

• A stipend of INR 25,344 per month.
• A housing allowance of INR 6,000–12,600 (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

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.

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.

Click here to know more and APPLY