A multi-component approach to preparing Fellows for life after the Fellowship:

Teach For India aims to expose Fellows to information about potential career tracks and provide professional enrichment opportunities, to aid their career decision-making and bolster the strength of their job and graduate degree program applications.

Action Curriculum

The Action Curriculum consists of 5 optional courses which Fellows pursue in the second year, to learn about how to effect change from within any given sector of interest:

• Social enterprise
• CSR
• Government
• Education
• Advocacy

Each substantive course includes theoretical and practical elements and consists of monthly gatherings supplemented by independent work. Over an 8-month period, 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 skills curriculum and counseling

Teach For India provides or 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
• Applying for graduate school
• Marketing the Teach For India experience
• One on one counseling with staff

Community Leadership Project

Additionally, the Community Leadership Project is undertaken by Fellows in their second year, through which Fellows choose to tackle one primary challenge to students' achievement (after discussions with school communities and leaders) and create innovative and sustainable solutions to this problem.

By designing, implementing and managing a small-scale project within the school community, Fellows build upon their leadership and project management skills, and develop a deep understanding of the barriers to student achievement and educational equity.

Summer Internships

The summer between years one and two of the Fellowship provides an excellent opportunity for Fellows 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 diverse organizations across sectors to support Fellows in obtaining positions.

Placement Cells

For more information on placement opportunities, click here.