Teach For India

Hey everyone, if you're looking for an opportunity to expand your horizon and do some good at the same time, read about the Teach For India programme in Pranay Puranik's message below.

Teach For India is a movement that aims to narrow the educational gap in India by placing the most outstanding college graduates and young professionals, of all academic majors and careers, in low-income schools to teach for two years. In June 2009, Teach For India will place Fellows in English-medium, primary schools in Mumbai and Pune (India). 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.
The Teach For India Fellowship is a two-year paid assignment. Throughout the Fellowship, Teach For India Fellows help close the achievement gap by leading their students to significant academic gains. In the second year of their fellowship, Fellows plan and implement a school-wide project to address one major obstacle to learning in their community.

As such, Teach for India is looking for Fellows who have demonstrated leadership, and are inclined to make a commitment to the community. Students in their final year of under-graduate or post-graduate studies and young professionals are eligible to apply.

Why should you join Teach For India?
Teach For India offers you the chance to build applicable leadership skills while making a real difference in tackling one of India’s most pressing challenges – educational inequity. By presenting you with one of the most difficult challenges of your life, the Fellowship helps you develop leadership skills that will make you a high-demand candidate for any career. You will leave the Fellowship literally ready for anything – and with the experience to advocate for a future in which all children have access to an excellent education.

Opportunities after Teach for India:
Teach For India will support their alumni whether they choose to remain in the education sector as teachers, principals, or NGO leaders, enroll in post-graduate schools, work in the corporate sector or pursue literally any path they wish. Teach For India alumni staff maintains relationships with top schools, universities, NGOs and corporates throughout the country and abroad, and helps Fellows connect with these opportunities after the Fellowship. Teach For India has already established close ties with the Indian School of Business, Thermax Group, S.P. Jain, Unilever, Citibank, ICICI, HDFC and McKinsey & Company, among many others. Teach for All, under which Teach for India falls, has been supported by reputed names such as HSBC, Dell, Visa, Google, Credit Suisse.

We believe that the experience and exposure that you will receive in your two years at Teach For India will open several doors, and a wide spectrum of opportunities for you. As the experience of Teach For America alumni shows, Teach For India alumni will be in high demand in any sector because they have the experience of overcoming immense challenges and have developed widely applicable leadership skills.

All those interested in this program can either refer to Teach for India’s website: http://www.teachforindia.org/ or e-mail me at puranikpranay at gmail.com.

Thanking you

Best Regards,

Pranay Puranik

Head Campus Ambassador
Teach for India (Singapore Region)