TeachForIndia Hiring for [icf] Transformational Teaching Fellowship (ttf) at    Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Full Time

Job Description

The Transformational Teaching Fellowship offers a pathway for Alumni teachers to keep getting better towards advancing the learning and leadership of children growing up in low income communities. Research across the globe tells us that spending a third and fourth year of teaching not only has an exponential impact on deepening an individual’s teaching practice, but also better prepares them for leadership positions within schools. Graduating Transformational Teaching Fellows may continue to teach and/or go on to build capacity in others towards advancing student learning and leadership through roles such as lead teachers, teacher trainers and school leaders. Transformational Teaching Fellowship (TTF) is designed for graduating Fellows and Alumni who want to:

• Deepen their practice as a teacher in the short-term (also positioning them towards teaching and leadership positions within schools in the medium- & long-term)
• Create significant impact with students directly, building further on what they learned during the two years of the TFI Fellowship
• Contribute to addressing a pressing cross-regional priority for student learning within Teach For India building capacity to support the growth of others
• Become part of a passionate community of excellent practitioners who will push their own, and each other’s, thinking and work in this area

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• TTF Fellows will take up the full teaching load for the classrooms they are placed in
• Co-create and set aspirational holistic goals for students for the year and design and execute a rigorous plan (keeping in mind that learning happens both inside and outside the school hours) that will help students achieve the outlined goals
• Contribute to addressing a pressing cross-regional priority for student learning within Teach For India that is aligned to strengths/interest.
• Write an Action Research paper that outlines impact and learnings from a key shift in own practice
• Share practice with current Teach For India Fellows towards supporting their growth and learning
• Highly recommended: Pass CENTA Teaching Professionals Olympiad

TENURE & STIPEND

• This opportunity is for the 2022-2023 academic year.
• Transformational Teaching Fellows will join the Fellowship at the beginning of the academic year in the city they are placed. The Fellowship will close at the end of the year in the city in which they are placed e.g. June-April.
• Transformational Teaching Fellows will receive a stipend of Rs. 33,333 per month plus housing and travel allowance (same as the TFI two-year Fellowship)

SUPPORT Within the placement city

• Transformational Teaching Fellows will have a city PoC to help navigate logistical issues and support with initial placement and school-level issues.
• Transformational Teaching Fellows will be part of a school team so they have a peer group for day-to-day thought partnering and support through regular school team meetings and informal touch points.

Nationally

• Transformational Teaching Fellows will be managed directly by the Transformational Teaching Fellowship Lead who will offer personalised feedback and coaching towards supporting TTF’s to meet their goals.
• Transformational Teaching Fellows will operate as a community of practice. Together we will create learning experiences, share practice and read to advance our understanding of student learning.
• The National Training and Impact Team will support Transformational Teaching Fellows to contribute to cross regional priorities through mapping to aligned National projects

• Exposure to local, national and global best practice through i) opportunities to engage in KER/TIJ Learning Loops and City Discussions ii) access to latest Teach For India Content/Ped National training iii) access to opportunities created by partner organisations such as CENTA, Teach For All Global Learning Lab, Createnet etc.

Optional Transformational Teaching Fellows may consider enrolling in a distance-learning B.Ed. Program (such as IGNOU, JNU, etc). SELECTION & MATCHING The Transformational Teaching Fellowship is a high autonomy, low support opportunity designed to allow individuals to explore teaching and learning with high levels of depth. As a result, both graduating Fellows, current TTF and Alumni will need to go through a selection & matching process, mostly geared to ensure strong alignment and fit with the program and intended outcomes.

• The Transformational Teaching Fellowship 2022-23 will have a cohort size of approx. 25 TTF’s placed in any of Teach For India’s 8 cities.
• Fellows will be placed in classrooms, within their city of choice, that can best help us to reach our cross regional priorities. This means in some cases Fellows may not be placed in the classrooms of their Fellowship
• The Transformational Teaching Fellowship 2022-23 is a nationally led and supported Fellowship. The selection process will be designed by the Training and Impact team and executed nationally with the support of City Leadership.

Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

• Bachelor’s Degree from any stream
• Completion of the two-year Teach For India Fellowship (as of 31 May, 2021)
• Evidence of leading a significant shift in student learning/leadership outcomes.
• For graduating 2020 Fellows this means your class has 65% attendance and 40% Math mastery/ 50% students on track to bridging the gap to grade in literacy. If you teach Grade 10 or SST/ Science please share your tracker and latest assessment paper with your application.
• Strong desire to continue teaching and/or take on roles such as lead teacher, teacher trainer, school leadership in the future