As educational and community leaders, principals aim to provide young learners with a rich and talented mix of teachers - leaders in the classroom - who will stop at nothing to see their students reach their full potential.

We believe Teach For Australia can play a powerful role in helping you do this.

Who are our Associates?

Teach For Australia Associates come from all disciplines and backgrounds. They are well-rounded, passionate, high-achieving individuals who have the distinguished academic performance, leadership experience, and communication and empathy skills to succeed in teaching in disadvantaged schools as Teach For Australia Associates.

As recent graduates and young professionals, each of our Associates has demonstrated outstanding achievement within their universities, in the workplace, across the wider community and even abroad.

The positive things are the youth of the people that this program attracts – their vitality and their intellect – and they actually bring to the school a very refreshing approach to teaching and learning and to the relationships they build with students

Peter Hilbig, Principal, Stawell Secondary College

So why would a young professional or non-teaching graduate choose Teach For Australia?

If there is one thing all of our Associates have, it's career options; be it in business, law, engineering, government or social enterprise. Yet, each of our Associates has instead made a decision to pursue a different path, recognising the opportunity teaching provides to have a direct impact on the life trajectories of young Australians.

Teach For Australia Associates hold a fundamental belief that all children can learn, and aspire to join in the conversation about eradicating educational disadvantage in Australia. They seek to learn from and work within their respective teacher networks in order to contribute to a vision that we all strongly share.

What do Teach For Australia Associates do after the two-year program?

Our Associates share a lifelong ambition to be actively involved in the education dialogue, wherever life may take them. Many will stay on in the classroom as teachers, others will pursue leadership roles in business, law, government, in establishing social enterprises and in influencing educational policy.

As Teach For Australia alumni, they will become part of a lifelong movement of leaders who are competent, passionate and socially aware, and who will remain connected with the mission of improving educational outcomes for all Australians. The Teach For Australia alumni program ensures they stay involved in education, so that they can continue to make an impact both inside the classroom and beyond.