The Teach For India model involves:
- Recruitment & Selection: Teach For India recruits the most outstanding college graduates andyoung professionals to teach in low-income government and private schools for two years. Applicants go through a rigorous selection process where they are evaluated on academic excellence, demonstrated leadership, a commitment to the community, critical thinking and perseverance, among other competencies. Teach For India believes that these core competencies are required to both drive student achievement in the short-term and to become life-long leaders who effect systemic change in the long run.
- Training: Prior to and during the two-year Fellowship, Teach For India provides Fellows with the technical and leadership training required to achieve the goals they have set for themselves and their students. This training includes a 5 week, residential training Institute before they start teaching followed by on-going training and support throughout the two years delivered through conferences, training sessions, leadership forums, online resources and on the ground coaching by a Program Manager.
- Placements: Fellows are placed for two years as full time teachers in under –resourced schools in one of Teach For India’s placement cities. They build relationships and have an impact beyond the classroom in the school and community in which they are placed.
- Alumni Impact: Teach For India builds partnerships across all sectors to ensure that Fellows have a clear path to even greater impact on our mission after the two year commitment. Teach For India works with Alumni to create pathways to leadership opportunities in prioritized areas in order to become proof points that change is possible.
- Impact: Teach For India measures its short-term impact on student achievement through externally created, rigorous assessments as well its long term impact on the development of Fellows into life-long leaders and advocates of the movement.
