Teach For Bulgaria Recruits New Teachers
Teach For Bulgaria has launched its new campaign for recruitment of teachers. The approved applicants will begin their training in July and will start teaching in September this year. For seven years now the NGO has been finding, training and using the capabilities of people, who are new to the education system but have the skills and talent to inspire and motivate students from vulnerable groups at partner schools of the organization across the country.
The deadline for applications under the program this year is May 1. The campaign is entitled “Children in search of a role model” and challenges the applicants to find the most motivating answers to the difficult questions of the children. You don’t have to be an experienced teacher or to have a professional teaching qualification in order to apply. You need to have a bachelor degree and an attitude that every child deserves equal access to quality education. Graduate students from any specialties, as well as successful professionals from different fields are also eligible. Participants in the program become teachers for two years with a monthly financial incentive of BGN 500 in addition to the salary from the school in one of the 13 regions where the organization plans to work as of September 2017.
During the current school year Teach For Bulgaria is working successfully with 88 partner schools in 10 regions of the country – Vratsa, Lovech, Montana, Pazardzhik, Pernik, Plovdiv, Razgrad, Sofia city, Sofia region and Stara Zagora. The organization also plans to include for the first time three new regions in the next school year – Veliko Tarnovo, Pleven and Sliven. Teach For Bulgaria will work with schools that are aware of their responsibility for the future success of their students and where the participants under the program can be of greatest benefit for the students and local communities. In their applications for partnership with Teach For Bulgaria the schools may fill in both the confirmed positions for which teachers will be needed in September 2017, and the positions that are yet to be confirmed at a later stage. The heads of the schools may submit an application for the program until April 10 in the special section on the website of the organization.
Since the beginning of February the office of Teach For Bulgaria has moved to the modern building of Collider Activity Center in Sofia Tech Park. The new office is a donation by WALLTOPIA – a reliable partner of the organization of many years and owner of the building. Here all applying teachers will be met and trained for the new course, as well as the numerous organizations supporting the mission of Teach For Bulgaria.
The NGO Teach For Bulgaria has been set up at the initiative and with the financial support of the America For Bulgaria Foundation and is part of the global network for equal access to quality education Teach For All. Since 2010 a total of 119 teachers have been trained under the program and 70% of them are still engaged in the field of education.
