What is Teach for America Program?What is the eligibility criterion to get into it?And what is the procedure?

teach for america takes college graduates that usually are not certified to teach and puts them in an inner city or rural area to teach for a couple of years to earn their certification while making some money.

You just need a bachelor’s degree in something you can teach, and then you just apply. Most colleges get people from it to recruit, so if you can’t find them, just ask a school of education department at a university.

They place you, so I don’t think you can always dictate where you go, you can go to Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and all kinds of other places, but you might be able to request a top three or something. You usually don’t make the actual teaching salary too, you get like 20k a year, but you get certified through doing it.

My school district is in a poverty striken area of the delta. We have teachers from the Teach for America Program every year. The requirement for participating is to sign a commitment for two years to teach in an urban or rural district. The website is teachforamerica.org, it can explain more. I know there is like 70 hours of training that you must commit to after being accepted as a candidate.

To the first poster, our district pays full teacher salary to TFA volunteers, depending on teaching experience. 🙂 They get the same benefits that we get along with other options.

Those that do not have a teaching degree can go an alternative route and teach. This program is also for those districts in a poverty area that has a teacher shortage.

I hope this helps. 🙂