Please visit https://apply.teachforindia.org/ to apply to the Fellowship.

Teach For India offers you the opportunity to make a real difference in tackling one of India’s most pressing challenges — educational inequity. By presenting you with one of the most difficult challenges of your life, the Fellowship will help you develop leadership skills that are critical in today’s dynamic global work environment. The Fellowship Program gives you an opportunity to become a part of the solution and lead change in the society.

Teach For India is looking for potential Fellows who have exhibited academic proficiency, demonstrated leadership, strong organizational skills, hold a graduate degree and are inclined to make a commitment to the community. Students and professionals with a Bachelor’s Degree at the time of joining the Fellowship are invited to apply. Please Click Here to go through all the eligibility criteria in detail.

The two-year commitment is necessary to make the impact we wish to have on student achievement. In the first year, Fellows will refine their teaching skills and will start to establish respect and trust among various stakeholders within the school community and the students. This then allows Fellowsto achieve significant academic gains for Students and to implement their community/school project in the second year. Furthermore, Teach For India looks for leaders who are willing to commit to long-term change and have the perseverance to work hard in challenging situations. In this context, the two-year commitment is a small step towards long-term reform.

Teach for India currently has approximately 1100 Fellows, teaching across 7 cities and 2541 Alumni. Our Fellows are spread across Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune, teaching approximately 38,000 children.

Teach For India Fellows are a diverse group of people, brought together by their past achievements and their passion to eliminate educational inequity. They come from diverse backgrounds of colleges such as IITs, IIMs, St.Stephen’s College, St. Xavier’s College, Christ University, Presidency College etc and companies such as Accenture, McKinsey, Mahindra & Mahindra, IBM, Ernst & Young, Schlumberger etc. By joining the Fellowship, you will get an opportunity to work with some of the brightest and most enterprising minds of the country.

At Teach For India, we believe that great teachers and great leaders embody the same principles and mindsets. Both develop an ambitious and inspiring vision and set measurable, standards-aligned goals informed by that vision. Both constantly learn, pushing their bar higher every time, and develop competencies that form what we call 'Teaching as Leadership'.

For our Fellows and Students to be leaders, we focus on building skills and mindsets through our Leadership Development Journey (LDJ). The LDJ provides a simple framework for reflective practice. We continuously identify our strengths and areas of development that will enable us to accelerate learning for each child we work with.

The LDJ takes Fellows through eight milestones in which they explore where their classroom is on the Student Vision Scale (which defines Academic Achievement, Values and Mindsets, and Access and Exposure that our Students need), and where they are on the Fellow Commitments Scale (defines the three commitments for a Fellow towards - Personal Transformation, Collective Action, and Educational Equity).

1. Beginning of Institute

2. End of Institute

3. Beginning of Y1

4. Mid of Y1

5. End of Y1

6. Beginning of Y2

7. Mid of Y2

8. End of Y2

Teach For India Fellows are placed in 2nd to 10th standard classrooms where they teach all major subjects — including English, Mathematics, Social studies and Science with the exception of regional languages. Although the mother tongue is helpful in interacting within our communities, it is not a necessary prerequisite as our schools are English medium.

Teach For India Fellows are placed in under-resourced schools in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, and Pune. All Fellows are required to reside in one of these cities during the period of the Fellowship. If you are unable to do so, please note that we will expand into more cities in the upcoming years, and hope to be in ten cities and surrounding rural areas within the next 5 years.

Teach For India works relentlessly to ensure that all Fellows have the knowledge and skills necessary to lead their students towards achievement. The Teach For India Fellowship begins with a five-week residential training program. Here, Fellows are exposed to curriculum, lesson planning, and classroom facilitation and student assessments among other modules, sessions and keys to successful teaching. Additionally, each Fellow will have a mentor in the form of a Program Manager whose primary responsibility is to guide Fellows to become effective teachers and leaders. Additionally, Teach For India will also provide ongoing technical trainings from in-house trainers.

Teach For India Fellows are paid a salary of INR 20,400 per month. If required to relocate from their home city, Fellows are given a housing allowance ranging from INR 5500 to INR 10,000, depending on the city in which they stay. In addition, Fellows are reimbursed for school supplies.

Teach For India strongly believes that excellent teachers employ the same skills as excellent leaders in any field. Spending 2 years in the classroom will help Fellows develop leadership skills such as organization, communication, problem-solving in an unstructured environment, people management and resourcefulness that are valuable in any sector. Teach For India selects Fellows who have demonstrated excellence in the past and works with them throughout the two-year Fellowship to ensure that they take advantage of the experience to become extraordinary future leaders.

Teach For India's ninth cohort of Fellows graduated in April, 2019. Our 2541 Alumni are now spread all over the country and abroad in jobs ranging from consulting to education startups; and as students in top universities such as Harvard, Cornell, Chicago Booth, Columbia, and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Teach For India supports its Fellows to pursue their individual career interests by training and mentoring them and striving to build relationships with top schools, universities, NGOs, and corporates throughout the country. Teach For India has already established close ties with HDFC, Godrej Industries, Harvard Business School, IIM Bangalore, ISB, McKinsey & Company, Tata Consultancy Services, Columbia Law School, Ernst & Young and the Thermax Group, among many others.

Teach For India will accept applications for the Fellowship every year. If you are unable to consider joining the Fellowship at this time, we welcome you to consider applying for the Fellowship in the subsequent years. However, before making the decision, please write to us apply@teachforindia.org and we would be glad to address your concerns and see if we can make it work for the upcoming year. For questions on the Application Form and Selection process, please see Admission and Application FAQs below. Please email us at apply@teachforindia.org if you have additional queries.

The online application is designed to let you complete various sections in your own time before you submit the final version. Please ensure that you click on “Save Section” button at the bottom of every section before moving on to another section. The Admissions team will only review your application once you submit it. They will NOT look at your application while you are still working on it.

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We have 4 application deadlines for the 2020 Fellowship Program. The application deadlines are:

Deadline 1: Sunday, August 25th, 2019, 10:00 PM IST

Deadline 2: Sunday, October 20th 2019, 10:00 PM IST

Deadline 3: Sunday, December 15th 2019, 10:00 PM IST

Deadline 4: Sunday, March 1st 2020, 10:00 PM IST

(a) Minimum Qualification: You must have completed all coursework required for your undergraduate degree (Bachelor’s degree equivalent) from an accredited college or university by the last week of May 2020. Your degree transcripts (graduate/ postgraduate certificates) will be reviewed before a selection decision can be taken. Applicants must also pass any coursework indicated in their transcripts at the time of the interview.

(b) Nationality: You should be either (i) an Indian citizen or (ii) a foreign national of Indian origin. Foreign citizens who are not of Indian origin are not eligible to apply. Note to Foreign nationals of Indian origin: For more information on the OCI card, please go to the Ministry of Home Affairs. To apply for the OCI card, please go to the Online OCI Registration Form. We recommend applying for the OCI card as soon as you have made the decision to join the Fellowship, as it takes approximately 1-3 months to receive the card.

(c) Commitment & Location: The Fellowship is a full-time, paid commitment to teaching and living in one of our placement cities (Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru) starting May/June 2020. Fellows will be full-time staff members of the schools in which they are placed and will work stipulated school hours six days a week as well as attending training and support sessions as per city requirements.

(d) English Fluency: You should be fluent in the English language as Teach For India Fellows will be placed in English-medium schools and will be expected to teach in and attend training sessions conducted in English.

(e) Age Limit: There is no age limit to apply for Teach For India Fellowship.

Please check whichever measure is most relevant to you, and then fill in both your score and the base from which it was calculated. Please give only one measure. For example, if your institution uses “Cumulative Average” as its measure for academic achievement and your cumulative average is 8.0/10.0, please check “Cumulative Average”, and then fill in “8.0” on Score and “10.0” on Base. If your institution does not calculate any of these measures for you, you will have to calculate the average of the final grades of ALL of your coursework, and fill in the relevant information. If you are currently in your final year at college and hence do not have your final year graduation scores, please enter an average of your scores from all your previous years at college. Please note that if you attend an Assessment Centre, we will ask for copies of your mark sheets or transcripts to confirm the score you indicated.

Essay 1: Leadership- Leadership is an act which ensures that the impact is two-fold. Firstly, on your development and secondly on the development of people in your TEAM or surroundings. Ensure the story that you share is covering both aspects of impact. The following questions may help with your essay:

Have you ever made an important contribution to your work/society/college wherein you had to lead a team or you had led a person to success on a specific goal? What were your responsibilities as the leader of that team or group of people? What did you actually do through the process to lead your team towards the goals? What was the outcome? How did completing this goal had an influence on your and other’s life/work?

Essay 2: Perseverance- In this essay we want one story from your last 2-4 years which displays your perseverance. It has to be a professional example. Have you make commitments in the past where you were faced with a lot of challenges - the commitment itself might have been challenging or you might have made a commitment to something and faced challenges along the way. Is your example impacting on two fronts- you as well as the people around. The following questions might help you with the essay:

What has been the biggest challenge in your professional/extracurricular life? What kind of hurdles did you face during this challenge? How did you plan to overcome these challenges? What was the final outcome of it? What was the impact it had on you and others?

Essay 3: Motivation- What flaws/gaps do you see in the current education system? What is your vision for an excellent education? How will you achieve this vision in the classroom when you do get selected?

Why do you want to join the Teach For India Fellowship? What kind of education would you want for your own children? Keeping this type of education in mind how would you plan for the 40 students that you are going to lead during Fellowship? How would you transfer your own learning experience to them? How would you transform their lives in these 2 years that the impact stays with them for long-term? Are you thinking about life post-fellowship? Are there any broad interests that you would want to pursue? How do you see the Fellowship helping you meet these goals or what you want to achieve post the 2 years of the Fellowship?

This is your opportunity to tell us what you have been doing in the last few years. In this section we are looking to learn about your professional experience/ extracurriculars that you have participated in. It does not need to be only in social service or education sector roles.

You only have enough space to tell us about three of them. Pick the three that are most relevant to your personal and professional growth and leadership. Look at this from the perspective of your application reader. Have you mentioned everything about the role/position that will give the reader a complete story?

The application is designed for us to get to know you as best as possible. The more details you give us the better opportunity we will have to do this. Do not just tell us about the role you were in, tell us how you got assigned to that role and what your responsibilities were in that role and what you achieved

The essays are your chance to tell us about yourself and your interest for Teach For India. As they are extended answers with no upper word limit, you will be able to use them as an opportunity to demonstrate to us in detail why you are a strong candidate for the Fellowship. Please therefore spend time developing your understanding of Teach For India - by reading our website, watching our short videos, speaking with staff, Fellows or Alumni or reading related articles – as well as thinking about what you want to tell us before writing your response. Please also ensure that you have checked your essays for spelling and grammar errors as well as to ensure that you have answered each question fully. We recommend that you draft your essays off-line before proof reading and then copy-pasting them onto the application form, to ensure that the essays you submit are of the highest quality.

You will first hear back from us within ten working days of the deadline that you applied for.

Round 1:

Deadline Date: 25 August 2019

Application outcome date: 5 September 2019

Round 2:

Deadline Date: 20 October 2019

Application outcome date: 4 November 2019

Round 3:

Deadline Date: 15 December 2019

Application outcome date: 3 January 2020

Round 4:

Deadline Date: 1 March 2020

Application outcome date: 13 March 2020