Teach for India

Is a programme that identifies and develops leaders who would like to adopt Teach for India’s fellowship model and implement it in their own contexts to attempt and reach out all over the country to impart education to children.

This incubation programme guides aspiring educational leaders through personalised coaching, residential training, site visits, webinars, mentorship, relevant knowledge and mindsets to go ahead and initiate high impact teaching fellowship models.

The InnovatED programme supports early stage educational startups in scaling up and converting their project from a prototype to a full-scale model. It is an eight-month long incubation initiative which supports entrepreneurs through a regular stipend, mentoring, boot camps and access to a community of fellow entrepreneurs to help them in scaling up their ventures to meet various educational and developmental needs of children.

Is Teach for India’s contribution to teachers. It is an online teacher development platform which allows teachers from anywhere to access learning content.

The content offers courses, webinars, learning paths, online learning circles and organised resources in partnership with many organisations to strengthen teaching skills.

This programme attempts to change the way education is received and delivered. It empowers children by imparting 21st century skills like critical thinking, courage, communication, consciousness, curiosity, compassion, creativity and collaboration.

It emphasises the role of children in education and provides safe spaces to voice their opinions, encourages educators and children to be partners and motivates them to be changemakers.

The Fellowship is Teach For India’s core program. The Fellowship is an opportunity 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, our Fellows are exposed to the grassroot 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. Recruitment, Selection: Teach For India recruits promising leaders for our flagship Fellowship program​ from top universities. Training and Support: Once recruited, we train our Fellows in a 5-week, intensive boot camp​: The Institute.The Institute is a five-week-long training process as part of the beginning induction for Fellows onto their Leadership Development Journey. Teaching: Teach For India provides excellent quality education through our Fellowship program.We train our Fellows in a 5-week, intensive boot camp​: The Institute is the first step of the Fellowship program. It is a 5-8 week long training for Fellows onto their Leadership Development Journey. At the Institute, Fellows are trained to: Expose them to the truth of inequity and build a vision of an excellent education through experiential learning. Develop the pedagogical skills Build leadership that is needed to sustain the systemic challenges and to pursue their long term theory of change. Our Fellows begin teaching in classrooms and are supported through their 2-year journey with an extensive eco-system of support: Beginning their classroom endeavor, Fellows assess the context of their classroom, school, and community to set goals and a vision for their students. Students are also encouraged to set their vision and goals for themselves. During the Fellowship, Fellows are periodically trained and upskilled at a city level to improve their teaching and classroom management skills by internal and external subject matter experts. A 2-day mid-year retreat for 1st Year Fellows designed for reflection on achievements, challenges, and planning forward including field visits on initiatives in the education development sector. Mid Year and End of Year examinations assessing the overall student growth in terms of academics, values and mindsets, and exposure and access using both internal metrics. Fellows undergo 3 Leadership Development Conversations with their Program Manager to appraise classroom and professional development and arrive at scores on the Student Vision Scale and with a new impact assessment tool around 8 critical skills - creativity, consciousness, compassion, courage, collaboration, communication, curiosity and critical thinking Community Projects: Our Fellows impact the students and communities through targeted initiatives. In the second year of the program, each Fellow is responsible for designing and executing a “Be The Change Project”, where they identify a pressing problem in the community and work with their peers and students to solve it. During the course of the two years, Fellows immerse themselves in the communities to build bonds with stakeholders and start initiatives that impact the larger society. These BTCPs allow our Fellows to grow in their commitment to equity while inducing in children a sense of responsibility towards the growth. Post completion of Fellowship, Fellows join the network of leaders fighting education in-equity from a multitude of fields. Our Alumni create impact through positions of leadership and influence at all levels of the education ecosystem.