Teach For India Fellowship
Tue, Sep 8, 2009
ARE YOU READY FOR A CHALLENGE?
Teach For India seeks the most outstanding students for 2010 Fellowship
Are you interested in leadership at the highest levels? Do you have a track record of academic achievement? Do you care about making a better India for all citizens?
Teach For India, the nationwide movement to end educational inequity, is seeking the world’s most outstanding final-year students for its selective 2010 Fellowship.
Teach For India believes that all children deserve access to a quality education. But in India today, where only 10% of students graduate from 10th standard and where low-income students have no teacher in their classroom 40% of the time, we are far from educational equity.
The Teach For India Fellowship creates a movement of leaders in all sectors who understand the problems behind educational inequity and who can fight for change. The two-year, full-time leadership Fellowship selects the best college graduates and young professionals worldwide to teach full-time in Indian low-income schools. Fellows are trained in teaching and leadership skills and network with leaders in government, business and entertainment.
Teach For India Fellows emerge with the leadership and soft skills – such as communication, problem-solving, and organization – to succeed in any sector. Teach For India’s career center helps Fellows connect with our corporate and post-graduate partners, including ISB, SP Jain, McKinsey, Thermax and more.
Teach For India is based on the highly influential and selective Teach For America movement, which is now 20 years old and boasts 17,000 alumni in powerful positions all over the United States and throughout the world.
In June 2009, Teach For India placed its first class of 87 Fellows in English-medium, primary schools in Mumbai and Pune. Fellows come from leading colleges such as IIT, St. Xavier’s, St. Stephen’s and Symbiosis and top corporates such as ICICI Bank, Godrej Industries, Mahindra & Mahindra, Tata Power and others. By its fifth year, Teach For India aims to place hundreds of Fellows in the country’s top metropolitan cities and their surrounding rural areas.
Interested in applying? Visit their website at www.teachforindia.org to apply, or e-mail campus ambassador Saurabh Harnathka at harnathka@gmail.com for more information.
The mission of Teach for India is quite noble, but why limit the fellowships to only ‘outstanding students’ ? Why not do a more comprehensive test of a person’s potential ?
Achintya, Teaching is leadership . Best leaders would make the most outstanding students. Hence ” Outstanding ” is not a limitation.
However ” a comprehensive test ” of a persons potential – is always taken care of in Teach for India -recruitment process – typically a preliminary screening , A detailed application, a phone interview , a detailed day long interview .
You can always reach them for more…
I have a telephone interview coming up.I am very keen on being a part of the Teach For India movement.What can i expect to be asked during the interview and how should i go about answering to clear it?
i want to join a teach for india fellowship programe.i have done M.A (Politcal science) and post graduate diploma in travel and tourism management.if i am able to join this programe,please tell what is the peocedure.
Hi Pav,
just don prepare coz the more you prepare the more you forget. they are not going to ask you about rocket-science,they will only examine your interest level and your potential level. I don consider a best mugger is the one who has the most potential aspects.try to relate all thosed questions with your personal experience coz life is the best teacher.
rock on….
sugam
Hai I want to work in this programm ple. give details about this.
Hai sir Iam completed my b.ed i want to participate in this programm ple give details about this programm.
Truly appreciate the enthusiasm shown by you people for joining the Teach For India Fellowship. To apply, you need to visit http://www.teachforindia.org. Final deadline is January 17th, 2010..so hurry ! Also, feel free to post any further queries to harnathka@gmail.com.
Hi Saurabh
The mission of Teach for India is quite noble. I would like to appreciate the entire team member of “TEACH FOR INDIA”. Let me introduce myself.
I am Sutapa Saha from Jamshedpur (jharkhand). I am a post graduate in commerce (M.Com) & pursue my career as a teacher last 5 years in a private ICSE school at Jamshedpur. Education is such a field where we are really lacking behind, specially the state like Jharkhand. I welcome “TEACH FOR INDIA” team in Jharkhand, to make a change in social life. Behalf of Jamshedpur ,I can ensure you will find enthusiastic youths and people from various sector to join your group.
At present I am in Mumbai, as an MBA aspirant. Waiting for final exam(GDPI). Hopefully next 2 years I will be busy in study.
I want to ask you may I join your group? Not as a full time teacher, but some other way. It will be a great privilege for me to join such esteem organization.
regards
Sutapa Saha