Fellowship Support
Support Our Fellows
Fellows are at the heart of Teach for Italy’s mission to improve educational opportunity in Italy. Fellows are selected from a group of highly talented Italian university graduates and young professionals. After being onboarded, Fellows enroll in our Summer Institute, and then receive 1 on 1 coaching as they are monitored throughout the Fellowship to ensure positive results in the classroom.
Impact of Fellows
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One Fellow can impact over 60 students.
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Our Fellows have reached 4,000+ students, to date.
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Our Fellows have taught in 37 schools in 19 provinces across 8 regions.
Sponsorship Opportunities
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Annual Fellowship
Support one Fellow for one year of their Fellowship.
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Summer Training Institute
Support one Fellow for their initial Summer School Training.
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Data, Monitoring and Evaluation
Support the critical comprehensive analysis of one Fellow.
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$12,000
Each year, Teach for Italy recruits and develops diverse, outstanding recent graduates and young professionals who commit two years to teach in Italy’s most disadvantaged schools, working to expand opportunities for children. The Fellows work to ensure their students grow as leaders who can shape a better future for themselves. The Fellows will have access to training and pedagogical coaching to become excellent teachers and to act as real agents of change within the schools and communities around them. Throughout the course of the two-year program TFI provides ongoing coaching, support, and training in addition to helping Fellows secure a summer internship between the first and second year of the program. In the longer term, beyond their two-year commitment, alumni of the program continue working towards the systemic changes necessary to improve the public education system in their countries.
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$2,000
Teach for Italy runs a training program for all First-Year Fellows that takes place for six weeks in July and August, focused on educational training, coaching, and teaching. Fellows work closely with staff and are assigned to Program Managers, most of whom are alumni of one of the Teach for All Fellowship programs. Program Managers provide Fellows with ongoing help and guidance to support the Fellows development. As part of the Summer Institute Training, Teach for Italy partners with Save The Children and new Fellows work in Save The Children’s “Punto Luce” in Turin, an educational center located in the city’s most disadvantaged neighborhood. TFI Fellows are able to practice teaching within the community they work in and are able to develop an understanding of the needs and aspirations of the local community.
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$1,200
Teach For Italy has developed one of the most advanced Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) systems in the global Teach For All network. All activities of TFI Fellows are evaluated by the MEL system to assess outcomes in real-time, inspired by international best practices across Teach For All, but contextualized on TFI's programmatic objectives in the Italian school system. The multilevel MEL system involves 4 levels of monitoring the outcomes:
(1) Self-Assessment Questionnaires from Fellows
(2) Student Feedback Questionnaires (Voice of the Students)
(3) Parental Feedback Questionnaires (Voice of the Parents)
(4) School Principals' Feedback Questionnaires (Voice of the School Principals)
To ensure transparency and democratization of data, teaching Fellows share the data and reflect on the results with their students, parents, and school principals. As with every other part of TFI’s Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning System (MEL), all data and results obtained from TFI schools are shared with the schools, with whom we meet to interpret trends and discuss the results of the surveys.
Support Our Expansion into Southern Italy
Educational disparities are more prevalent in Southern Italy than in Central or Northern Italy — with the South having a 30% high school dropout rate than the rest of Italy.
On top of this, the South has an excess of teachers. As a result, as Teach for Italy urgently plans to open operations in the South of Italy, Fellows will act as Teaching Assistants in schools.
Therefore, Fellows will act as additional teachers in Southern classrooms. At present, Teach for Italy Fellows’ expertise is essential to the success of Southern education.
