Teach For India

Teach For India
Founded 2007
Type Education, Nonprofit organisation
Focus Eliminating Educational Inequity in India
Location
Area served
New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kolkata
Key people
 Shaheen Mistri - Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Website www.teachforindia.org

Teach For India (TFI) is a non-profit organisation that is a part of the Teach For All network.[1] The Fellowship recruits college graduates and working professionals to serve as full-time teachers in low-income schools for two years.[2] Teach For India is striving to end the problem of educational inequity in India and provide an excellent education to all children.[3][4][5]

Organisation

The "TFI fellows" work across 209 schools in seven cities of India - Mumbai, Pune, New Delhi, Chennai, Ahmedabad , Bengaluru and Hyderabad reaching approximately 38,000 students.[6] TFI was started in 2008 by a group of activists led by Shaheen Mistri who wanted to bring about a systemic change in the Indian education sector by infusing committed teachers into the system.[7][8] The group met Wendy Kopp, CEO and Founder of Teach For America (TFA), and following a McKinsey study, started adapting Teach For America’s Theory of change in India.[9]


Published works

References

  1. ↑ "Teach For All". teachforall.org. Archived from the original on 8 June 2017. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  2. ↑ "Home | TeachforIndia". www.teachforindia.org. Retrieved 2016-08-19.
  3. ↑ "Invest in teacher training for better quality of education: TFI chairperson". The Indian Express. 2018-07-29. Retrieved 2018-09-30.
  4. ↑ "Teach For India now reaches Kolkata - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2018-09-30.
  5. ↑ "The Crisis | TeachforIndia". www.teachforindia.org. Retrieved 2016-08-19.
  6. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-11. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
  7. ↑ Karambelkar, Maitreyee (26 May 2010). "A lesson in combining education and entrepreneurship" – via The Hindu.
  8. ↑ "Education should focus on overall devpt of children: Mistri". 24 May 2010.
  9. ↑ "Social Work and Personal Growth - The Story of a Teach For India Fellow - DU Beat". DU Beat. 2017-10-05. Retrieved 2018-09-30.
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