Action Curriculum
The Action Curriculum consists of four optional courses during their second year in which Fellows learn about how to effect change from within any given sector of interest:
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Government and Political Advocacy
- Education and School Leadership
Each substantive course includes theoretical and practical elements during a two-day intensive session supplemented by expert speakers, discussions, and independent readings. Each course is designed to help guide career decisions and prepare Fellows to succeed in the field of their choosing.
Leadership Forums
Leadership Forums are regularly scheduled events which allow Fellows to interact with notable leaders in all fields. Past speakers include Aamir Khan, Aditya Natraj, Geet Sethi, Harsh Mandar, Hillary Clinton, Jerry Rao, Kiran Sethi, Nachiket Mor, Pervin Verma, Roopal Shah & Anand Shah, Rahul Bose, Venkat Krishnan, Wendy Kopp, and William J. Burns.
Career Design
Teach For India facilitates the delivery of core professional skills and counseling related to the job search process. This includes the following components:
- Communication skills
- Interviewing skills
- CV writing
- Marketing the Teach For India experience
- Access to a growing alumni network
Teach For India will also provide Fellows with the opportunity to work with a mentor.
Be The Change Community Leadership Project
The Be the Change project is an opportunity for Fellows to extend their impact beyond the classroom to the school and/or community. Each Fellow owns and implements a project directed towards tackling a challenge that hinders the achievement of their students. These projects could range from setting up a community library to instituting a parent literacy program. Fellows will create innovative and sustainable solutions to the problem. To effectively execute the project, Fellows research and plan, invest stakeholders, troubleshoot the project in its execution phase, and chart out a sustainable transition plan.
By designing, implementing and managing a small-scale, sustainable project within the school community, Fellows hone their transferable leadership and project management skills. Fellows also develop a deep understanding of the varied barriers to achievement, and the complex problems associated with achieving equity in education. This experience shapes and guides the methods that Fellows will adopt in their short and long term efforts towards eradicating educational inequity.
Summer Internships
During the summer between years one and two of the Fellowship, Fellows are provided an excellent opportunity to explore career interests, develop professional contacts, and apply skills they have learned in the classroom. Teach For India encourages Fellows to pursue summer internships and maintains relationships with a diverse array of organizations across sectors to support Fellows in securing positions. To know more about the organisations with which Teach For India partners for internships, click here
Career Opportunities
In order to support Fellows in their post-fellowship job search, Teach For India has a growing list of relationships with organizations and graduate schools across sectors. Although Teach For India does not guarantee a job post the Fellowship, Teach For India does provide advice and counsel to Fellows to help them make the best possible career decisions. Not only do several corporate and non-profit employers preference Teach For India Fellows for new employment, many companies also offer deferrals to their current employees by allowing them to pursue the Fellowship within a two- year employment sabbatical. To know more about the organizations in which Teach For India’s current alumni are working click here.
Several graduate schools have also partnered with Teach For India in a variety of ways, including offering admission deferrals, assistance with loans and scholarships, and recognizing Teach For India as valid work experience. To learn more about the Graduate Schools with which Teach For India has established a relationship click here
