Teach For India India is offering one of the largest fellowship programmes in the world where they are inviting India’s brightest and most promising individuals to apply to work in the most underserved classrooms to infuse in students the love for learning, and in turn, the skills, values, and mindsets to live up to their fullest potential. The selected fellows are placed as full-time teachers for two years, in government or low-income private schools where they teach English, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies across Grades 1 to 10.
“The closure of schools during the Covid pandemic has affected kids who are stuck at home for almost 18 months figuring out how to access any format of learning. We have seen a lot of kids forget their foundational literacy and numeracy skills, drop out from schools, get engaged in earning a living, return to child labour or get married in the past one and a half years,” says Shaheen Mistri, founder of Teach For India.
Continued school closure has also affected the mental health and the state of nutrition in our children, added Shaheen.
Since 2009, we have built a movement of leaders who work together to ensure children from high-needs communities attain an excellent and equitable education. Excellent teachers and leaders build environments that foster learning and growth. They connect deeply with themselves, their context, and the communities that they serve. They build a culture that promotes safety and love and drives for outcomes, and they consistently reflect on their outcomes as well as the leadership they display every day,” said Shaheen.
As a Fellow, an individual will get:
- An opportunity to make a difference in a classroom from day one
- Exposure to leaders from across sectors
- A chance to visit the external careers fair as you graduate from the Fellowship
- Join a community of 4000+ Alumni, 77% of whom work directly with underserved communities
- Get access to a global network of 60+ Teach For India partner organizations
- Teach For India has consistently been amongst the top ten places to work in the Great Places to Work Survey.
Seeshma Sureshkumar, Teach For India Fellow from Chennai said, – “Fellowship has helped me transform into a leader, made me understand my strengths and given me a reason to work on my areas of development.”
Present in 8 cities (Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune and Kolkata), Teach For India Fellows are placed as full-time teachers for two years.
“My two-year commitment with Teach For India has helped me to think critically from multiple perspectives, communicate effectively and become leaders of self and community, said Shivam Bhatnagar, a Teach For India Fellow from Delhi.
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