Teach For India

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 excellent education to all children.[3][4][5]

Teach For India
Founded2007
TypeEducation, Nonprofit organisation
FocusEliminating Educational Inequity in India
Location
Area served
New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Bangalore
Key people
Shaheen Mistri - Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Websitewww.teachforindia.org

Organisation

The 'Teach For India Fellows' work across 305 schools in seven cities of India - Mumbai, Pune, New Delhi, Chennai, Ahmedabad , Bengaluru and Hyderabad reaching approximately 38,000 students.[6] Teach For India was started in 2008 led by Shaheen Mistri who wanted to bring about 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 19 August 2016.
  3. "Invest in teacher training for better quality of education: TFI chairperson". The Indian Express. 29 July 2018. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  4. "Teach For India now reaches Kolkata". The Times of India. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  5. "The Crisis | TeachforIndia". www.teachforindia.org. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 March 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  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. 5 October 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  10. Sohoni, Sakshi (11 November 2020). "The Two Puzzle Pieces – Learnings from a Public School". The Contemporary Law Forum.
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