Scholarship details
Teach For Bangladesh (TFB) introduces exceptional and different leaders to its unique fellowship program. Their Fellows focus on teaching for a long time in a low-income community, where they function as a teacher at nearby schools. During those two years, fellows are submerged in their position in school and communities, functioning as full-time teachers, and finding the delights and difficulties that accompany growing opportunities for all children. After effective graduation from the Fellowship in two years, they become part of the TFB alumni organization.
Informed by their encounters, motivated by their students, and furnished with the leadership abilities they created through the program, TFB Alumni proceed to seek influential professions both inside and outside the education system, assisting with building a Bangladesh that better serves all children in the community.
Teach For Bangladesh
The fellowship aims to make an impact to empower the students, support the schools, and collaborate with the communities.
TFB Fellows are, above all else, educators who accept that all kids are fit for greatness. During the fellowship, they gain proficiency with the building blocks of incredible teaching and work persistently to guarantee their students’ learning and development. They assemble homerooms that are inviting and upbeat, where all children will foster certainty, correspondence, decisive reasoning, and socio-emotional abilities close to their academics. Their Fellows assist students with opening their own leadership potential and finding their capacity to make a change in their general surroundings.
They believe that students and communities are the true leaders of the equality movement. TFB Fellows work eagerly to develop credible associations with students, guardians, and other community individuals. Consistently, Fellows support student-driven community administration activities to address crucial difficulties, for example, well-being and cleanliness, student security, gender equity, waste management, reusing, environmental change, and so on. Fellows make a positive effect on networks and build student leadership all the while.
This is a novel chance for fellows to comprehend schools, gain from veteran teachers, team up on broad drives, and offer developments and best practices with others. The fellows develop solid school connections to have a far more noteworthy effect on both learning and teaching.
Fellowship Provider: Teach For Bangladesh Foundation
About the Provider
Teach For Bangladesh is enthusiastic about acquiring change for the education system of Bangladesh in two ways. In the first place, the fellows start as profoundly gifted teachers, guaranteeing legitimate learning opportunities for kids in vulnerable networks. And afterward, as Alumni, they keep on driving change in education toward their vision for a fair society.
Teach For Bangladesh was established in 2012 by teacher turned-social business visionary Maimuna Ahmad. Maimuna grew up in Dhaka and the suburbia of Washington D.C, seeing early on how systematic variations persevered through ages, affecting individuals and networks around her in the two nations.
In 2021, they extended the Fellowship program to a secondary school and are in the process of sending off students in the country, remote, and education-in-crisis settings in Bangladesh. The program has delivered in excess of 200 Alumni working across people in a non-profit, private, and public organizations in Bangladesh.
Summary
- Academic Year: 2023-2024
- Applicant’s Nationality: Bangladesh
- Degree Level: Master’s Degree
- Field: Education
- Duration: Two years
- Fellowship Country: Bangladesh
- Number of Awards: NA
- Award: 30,000 BDT
- Renewable: Yes
- Offered Annually: Yes
Eligibility
- Interested applicants must be Bangladesh nationals
- Must be working full-time as a teacher in Bangladesh
- Applicants must be able to demonstrate their leadership skills and passion for teaching
- Must be holding an undergraduate degree
- Be able to meet all the requirements for the fellowship
Leadership Commitments
The Teach For Bangladesh Fellowship will set you up for leadership commitments with the help of educational value. When you finish the two-year program, you will be a part of a dynamic and inspiring public development of TFB Alumni working for value in education, as well as a global community of Alumni from the 60+ Teach For All accomplice associations. Their Alumni influence the examples they have learned and the connections they have worked during the Fellowship to assemble high-influence careers in various fields, assisting with reshaping Bangladesh’s education system.
Fellowship Pre-Service Training
- The Fellowship venture begins with a six-week pre-administration preparation known as “Winter Academy,” which will set you up to give your students a great education while also seeking a lifetime commitment to advancing educational value and greatness.
- At Foundation, your learning will be centered around significant ideas, including socially applicable instructional methods, a general plan for learning, and socially profound learning.
- You will engage in continuous self-reflection and immediately apply the illustrations you learn in actual teaching. You will likewise finish a study hall teaching practicum, where you will get immediate criticism and instruction to develop your fundamental teaching abilities.
Application Process
The application can be completed in an online portal provided on the official website of the provider. The application form must be completed with additional requirements to be submitted.
Fellowship Awards
- Succesful fellows will be awarded with a monthly stipend of 30,000 BDT during the entire duration of the program.
- The fellowship will help the fellows in preparing them for the field and develop more skills.
Once admitted into the Fellowship, the successful fellows will likewise be enlisted into a Post-Graduate Recognition (PGD) in Educational Leadership and School Improvement at BRAC Institution of Educational Developments. Classes typically begin 2-4 months after you begin teaching at your position school and are held one night per week. Through the PGD, you will gain an academic understanding of the field of education as well as the experiences and educational scene in Bangladesh. You will likewise have the potential chance to finish a thesis toward the finish of your Fellowship to change over your PGD into a Master’s Degree in Education.
Application Deadline
The deadline to complete and submit the application is until March 19, 2023.
