About NGO:

Teach For India strongly believes that in order to achieve educational parity, India needs a movement of leaders in a variety of sectors who are committed to, and will work towards, ensuring that every child in India receives an excellent education. In the short run, TFI will provide a source of dedicated teachers working tirelessly to expand the educational opportunities available to India's least privileged children. In the long run, the program aims to create a powerful network of alumni who, influenced by their experiences in the classroom, will work towards effecting multi-sector solutions to India's educational problems. At Teach For India, we're building a movement of leaders committed to create a world where everyone has a choice, an opportunity and a hope to maximize their potential.

We are seeing the impact every day, across 12,500 children. With your support, we'll grow to see this impact across 60,000 children in the next five years.

Fund Usage:

Teach For India is requesting funding for its sole program, the Teach For India Fellowship. This support will enable Teach For India to maintain the highest standard of excellence in its work while growing from a regional organization to one with truly national reach and impact.

Teach For India's mission is to build the movement of leaders who will end educational inequity Teach For India recruits India's most outstanding college graduates and young professionals and places them as full time teachers in under-resourced schools for two years. The core belief at Teach For India is that the root of systemic change is leadership - leadership who understand the problem, know how to change it, and are committed to doing so. Teach For India aims to provide these leaders.

Impact:

With regards to impact on the target population, Teach For India undertakes the following measures of student achievement:

• An external agency, Indus Learning, creates the beginning and end of year Math, Grammar and Reading Comprehension assessments based on Education Initiatives curriculum, allowing Teach For India to test growth over the year on those subjects.
• Writing and Reading Fluency are assessed three times per year according to well-known American tools, which have been adapted to the Indian context
• Teach For India assesses Speaking and Listening at the beginning and end-of-year through an internally-made rubric.
• On-grade-level students take the Asset, developed by Education Initiatives, used mainly by private schools, nation-wide, which allows comparison of progress against that of students in high-resource schools.

Teach For India also extensively measures its progress against detailed goals for impact on Fellows, as well as organizational growth and department-wise performance.

There are evidences in form of student writing / recorded videos showing improvement in student reading skills etc that can be provided on request.

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http://www.unitedwaymumbai.org/ngo92_tfi.htm

Founded Year: 2008

Cause category: Education

Our Supporters

• Neeraj Goenka
• Shalini Shekhawat