It's time for you to make a difference – to invest your talents in changing lives and achieving something lasting. Your energy, intelligence and creativity can transform the futures of students and drive up standards in challenging schools around the UK. Teach First’s two-year programme provides the training and support to enable you to make a real impact. At the same time, it’s an opportunity to dramatically enhance your own career potential and become part of a movement that is effecting profound change in our society.
Consider the way your life has been changed by the education you have received. Knowledge and the tools to solve problems, insight and appreciation of the world around you and, above all, opportunity. Now imagine if you could help other young people to access all that. Teach First takes exceptional graduates and transforms them into inspiring leaders – your leadership, inspiration and, above all, your example can be the key that unlocks the future for students confronted by a wide range of personal and social issues.
And while you are transforming lives, Teach First will help you to maximise your own potential, discover new skills and build on those you already have. With high-quality training – leading to the achievement of Qualified Teacher Status – leadership development, coaching and ongoing alumni programmes, Teach First will provide you with a strong platform of skills and experience to take forward into any management career. That’s why over 80 companies, government agencies and public bodies back Teach First to develop top talent for the future. Put simply, if you can engage, manage and stimulate a class of under-performing teenagers, you can handle pretty well any situation in business.
How it works
Teach First recruits high-calibre graduates from all disciplines for two years to train and qualify as teachers. Initially you will attend six weeks of intensive education training at one of the UK’s leading teacher-training institutions. Then you will be assigned to a school in London, the North West, East Midlands, West Midlands or Yorkshire, depending on its needs and your subject background.
Parallel to your teaching experience, you will also participate in the Teach First Leadership Development Programme. This will further develop your leadership skills and provide you with valuable contacts, coaching and internship opportunities and business and entrepreneurial training. And, as a Teach First Ambassador, you will continue to benefit from engagement with the Teach First network of supporters and alumni long after you complete the programme.
Teach First is a uniquely demanding option – after just six weeks you’ll be delivering real lessons to real students – but it is also uniquely satisfying. Few other options offer the same degree of genuine responsibility so early. And rarely, if ever, will you have the opportunity to make such a direct and important difference.
Teach First is your chance to join in, and to stand out. When it offers so much, the real question is why wouldn’t you Teach First?
