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Teach For India Fellowship
Teach For India Fellows
The Teach For India Fellowship is probably the most challenging and transformational experience of a Fellow's life. As teachers in classrooms, Fellows have multiple opportunities to confront and tackle challenges, motivate diverse stakeholders to work hard toward a shared vision, create and adjust plans to move further towards their goals and gain the confidence they need to succeed.
Role of Teach For India Fellows
Every Teach For India Fellow has two main responsibilities, through which they learn leadership skills in a hands-on, results-driven environment:
Classroom Instructional Leadership
Fellows are full-time teachers in English-medium government or low-income private schools for two consecutive academic years.
Fellows are expected to lead students toward academic achievement. Fellows foster this achievement by getting to know their students in and out of the classroom; creating instructional plans to match the whole class' and individual student's needs; delivering instruction in an engaging manner; working with other teachers, administrators and community members to build skills and obtain resources for the classroom; and administering and analyzing assessments to ensure that students are progressing towards their academic goals.
School Transformation/Leadership Project
In addition to teaching, a Fellow implement a transformational project in the school and/or students' community directed towards impacting any challenge towards the achievement of their students.
Fellows create innovative and sustainable solutions to this problem. To carry out this project effectively, Fellows research and plan the project; invest students, families, teachers, administrators and/or community members to help implement the project; and troubleshoot the project in its execution phase.
By designing, implementing and managing a small-scale, sustainable project within the school community, Fellows build upon their leadership and project management skills. These leadership and management skills are transferable and Fellows can utilize the lessons learned through this project in other work they do after the duration of the Fellowship. Through this project, Fellows also develop a deep understanding of the many barriers to achievement and the complex problems associated with achieving equity in education. This experience shapes and guides the methods through which Fellows tackle educational inequity in the country, both in the short term and long term.
AGE RANGE
Anyone born after 1st January 1976 is eligible to apply for the 2012 Fellowship
STIPEND
Teach For India is committed to providing a monthly stipend to all its Fellows. This stipend is meant to cover the personal needs of each cohort during their two years of teaching. Additionally for those joining the Fellowship from outside of the Mumbai and Pune areas Teach For India provides transition expenses limited to general train fares. Furthermore, cohorts that do not have accommodation in their placement cities will be provided an additional housing allowance.
Beyond the cost of living stipend, Fellows are also compensated up to a predetermined amount, for certain expenses, such as internet, schools supplies, etc
Teach For India Fellows will be paid a stipend of Rs. 16,000 per month. If required to relocate from their home city, Fellows will be given a housing allowance ranging from Rs.6,500 to Rs.8,000, depending on the city in which they will stay. In addition, Fellows will receive an allowance for school supplies.
Paid Sabbaticals
Given that several cohorts are young professionals that are taking a break from their careers to teach for two years, Teach For India has tied up with certain corporations who allow their employees to take a sabbatical to teach. These companies have agreed to hold their position until the end of the Fellowship and some even pay their salaries while they are Teach For India Fellows
APPLICANT PREREQUISITES
Young and experienced professionals and students in their final year of an undergraduate or postgraduate degree, are encouraged to apply.
Undergraduate Degree
You must have completed all coursework required for your undergraduate degree (Bachelor's degree equivalent) from an accredited college or university by last week of May 2012. You also must have received a secondary school diploma in order to be considered for admission.
Academic Record
Both your graduate (and post-graduate transcripts if you are a post-graduate student) will be reviewed with scrutiny before an admission decision can be taken. Applicants must also pass any coursework indicated in their transcripts as in progress at the time of the interview.
Indian National/Foreign National Status
Teach For India accepts applications from: 1) Indian citizens and 2) foreign nationals of Indian origin. Foreign citizens who are not of Indian origin are not eligible to apply.
Commitment And Location
All applicants must be willing to make a full-time commitment to teaching and living in one of our placement cities (Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Chennai and Hyderabad) starting June 2012 to be part of the Teach For India Fellowship. Fellows of the program will be full-time staff members of the schools in which they are placed and will work stipulated school hours, six days a week.
English Fluency
You must be fluent in English to be part of the Teach For India Fellowship, as we will be placing our Fellows in English-medium schools and will conduct all our training in English.
AGE LIMIT
Since the Teach For India Fellowship aims at building future leaders, applicants will have to be born after 1st January 1976.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Teach For India is looking for applicants who will be leaders in the classroom and beyond. We recognize that leaders come in many forms with varied past experiences, so there is no one profile of an ideal applicant. There are many ways to demonstrate leadership qualities, and we view applicants holistically by looking for evidence of demonstrated past achievement: achieving ambitious, measurable results in academics, extra-curricular activities, and/or work leadership.
We will select our Fellows based on their emerging leadership skills, specifically looking for:
■Ability to achieve ambitious goals
■Ability to work effectively in challenging environments
■Ability to think and plan strategically
■Communication skills
■Commitment to continuously improving performance
■Ability to think critically and base decisions on data and logic
■Commitment to the Teach For India mission
We also seek evidence that applicants operate with professionalism and integrity, and meet basic writing standards.
DEADLINES AND TIMELINES
Teach For India will accept applications for the 2012 Fellowship till 22nd January 2012 11:59 PM IST.
All applications received before 11:59 PM IST of each deadline will be reviewed and processed together. It will take up to 6 weeks after each deadline to implement the selection process and announce the final results.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply as soon as possible in order to maximize chances of selection for the Fellowship.
We will not accept applications after our final deadline of 22nd January 2012.
APPLICATION TERMS AND CONDITIONS
■TEACH FOR INDIA WILL NOT ACCEPT HARD-COPY APPLICATIONS. Please do not print and mail hard-copy applications to Teach For India.
■Please note that you are not asked to submit a CV/Resume or Cover Letter/ Personal Statement as part of the application
■The application form will work only on Mozilla Firefox 3.6 or later.
■Each applicant will be allowed ONLY ONE application for the 2012 Fellowship
■There will be no fees charged for filling and submitting the online application form
■Applications are non-binding.
SELECTION PROCESS
We will choose Fellows based on a multi-stage admissions process. The selection for the 2012 Fellowship will include the following stages:
1. Review of online application
2. Phone interview (not applicable for all candidates; certain candidates may be invited to the Assessment Centre stage directly after their online application is reviewed)
3. Assessment Centre, which is a full day that selected candidates spend in-person with Teach For India selectors and other applicants. At the Assessment Centre, the candidate goes through several activities to showcase their strengths and fit for the Fellowship. This is, by far, the most interesting experience in the selection process
Additionally, once selected, we will ask you to furnish references of people you have worked with professionally or your professors who will be able to vouch for your performance and suitability for the role.
The Teach For India Fellowship is a highly selective program. In the last 3 years, we have selected approximately 8% of our applicants as Fellows. For the 2012 Fellowship, we are seeking 450 Fellows to teach 22,500 children in four cities.
Please feel free to contact apply@teachforindia.org with any questions about the application and selection process or if you are facing a technical problem with the application form. 
