Our Fellowship Program is designed for leaders like you - without prior education background or experience but are passionate about making a direct and lasting impact on education.
Be a part of Teach For Hong Kong’s vision to address education inequity in Hong Kong. As a Fellow, your duties go beyond subject teaching, you will also initiate classroom innovation and organize extracurricular activities to expand grassroots students’ exposure. Supported by TFHK’s unique program design, you will have more time to interact with students, where you can have a deeper understanding of their challenges and higher flexibility to leverage cross-sector resources to deliver impact.
By 12 months, you will be equipped with key leadership skills, including self-awareness, collective mobilization, and strategic thinking to help you lead yourself, others, and changes. As such, you will be ready to take on new paths within and beyond frontline education, such as business, nonprofit, public sector, technology, and other sectors.
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Teach Subject Classes
Design and conduct classes with 50% lower teaching load compared to regular teachers.
Kindly note that 50% teaching load is not equivalent to half workload. It only means that you will teach fewer classes. Yet the time you spend on lesson preparation and other logistics may be longer as you have lesser experience in teaching.
Lead Extracurriculars
Cultivate students’ potential based on observed needs and create solutions for existing challenges
Activity themes: Arts & Culture, Financial Literacy, Global Vision & English Learning, Life & Career Exploration, Mental Health/Social & Emotional Learning, STEM, Sustainability
At least 8 activity sessions organized, and co-organized at least 1 with TFHK partners during Program period
Other Duties Assigned by the Partner School and TFHK
You may also talk to parents, other teachers and other stakeholders in order to understand the challenges students are facing beyond academic studies.
E.g. participating in academic and non-academic meetings as a committee member, communicating with parents, and coordinating existing school activities.
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Full salary, vacation: These come from the school you serve and salaries range from HKD16-17K per month excluding the training period (half of Point 15 on the Master Pay Scale of Civil Service Bureau)
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Personal development coaching: Bi-monthly personal development coaching with the aim to develop leadership competencies
Your dedicated Leadership Development Officer will facilitate you to navigating their challenge, to setting goal in how you want to grow in their Fellowship journey
A diverse and supportive network: 170+ alumni from different sectors and staff, working together in pursuit of educational equity
Exclusive access to our mentor network: You can accelerate your career development and personal growth through advice and network generously brought in by the mentors.
Our mentors include but not limited to:
Mr. Peter Poon, Chief Program Officer, The D.H. Chen Foundation
Mr. Eric Lin, General Manager (Hong Kong & Macau), Lee Kum Kee Company Limited
Ms. Vania Chu, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
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Duration: July 2024 - June 2025
1st Jul - 9th Aug 2024: Compulsory Training (non-paid, training fees covered by TFHK)
Aug 2024: Orientation & Summer Duties at Partner School (non-paid)
Sep 2024 - Jun 2025: School Placement (full-time, paid)
Working Hours: Mon-Fri 7am-4pm (may varies for different schools)
Location: You will be assigned to one of our partner schools (either primary or secondary school)
Our partner schools are located in New Territories (Tin Shui Wai, Fanling, Tuen Mun), Kowloon (Kowloon Bay, Kwun Tong, Diamond Hill, Mei Foo, Kwai Chung)
An internal matching will be done by our team based on Fellows’ preferences & schools’ requirements. There is no gurantee that all your preferences can be fulfilled
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Aged 35 or under as of 31 Dec 2024
Hold a Bachelor’s degree in any field
Have graduated or will be graduating latest by 2024
Have work authorization in Hong Kong (HKPR/IANG Visa) prior to the Program commencement
Your One-Year Fellowship Journey
Prepare To Teach & Lead
🔸 Professional Teaching Training by CUHK + 2-week Practicum
🔸 Leaders Sharing on education innovation, leadership, cross-sector collaboration
🔸 Team Building and Peer Learning Activities
More Than Teaching
🔸 Subject Teaching in Classroom
🔸 Lead Extracurricular Activities
(In collaboration with corporate partners & other Fellows)
🔸 Lesson Preparation & Admin & Meetings with other teachers & Other Duties assigned by the school
(You may lead as a class teacher)
You Never Walk Alone
🔸 Weekly Professional Training on social & educational issues, leadership skills
🔸 Bi-monthly Personal Coaching
🔸 Peer Learning Community
🔸 Connect with Industry Leaders for personal & professional development advice
Land On Impactful Career
Continue to work together across various sectors to champion for education equity.
1️⃣ Frontline Education (59%)
2️⃣ Business, Technology, Legal (18%)
3️⃣ Edu-related Professional (11%)
4️⃣ NGO & Social Innovation (6%)
purposeful career Options After Fellowship
Our Vision and Mission
Bringing education equity requires policy, practice, and culture changes, which requires people to exercise leadership from inside and outside the system.
Teaching is leadership. Teachers do not just deliver classroom content, they bring positivity and hope to their students and school. They are sensitive to social and educational challenges and dedicated to serving as leaders to empower their students to become confident and responsible individuals who contribute positively to society.
With this foundation, our Alumni continue to work inside and outside the education sector to improve access to quality education for all students and effect systemic changes in Hong Kong’s education.
Start Your Transformative Impact Journey With Us
Steffi Lau (Fellow 2023-24) Graduate of BA in Psychology at the University of British Columbia
"I am thankful for the incredible community of like-minded people. Through shared experiences, we learn from one another's successes and setbacks that foster our personal growth."
Justin Leung (Fellow 2023-24) Graduate of BSSc in Government & Public Administration at Chinese University of Hong Kong
"I feel energized and more determined in my personal mission for education equity. I want to inspire students to believe in themselves and that they are free to define themselves, however they want."
Jovina Wong (Fellow 2023-24) Graduate of Bsc Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
"When you teach you learn. Leading in classroom allow me to uncover my unique leadership style while continuously experiment with innovative instructional methods and strategies."
Anthony Yiu (Fellow 2023-24) Graduate of BSocSc (Government and Law) and LLB, The University of Hong Kong
"It is certainly eye-opening to gain insights from the experiences of guest speakers who are business leaders, entrepreneurs, social innovators, and many more. They inspire me to revisit the meaning of cross-sector collaborations.
Hear From Our Fellows
Frank Ng (Fellow 2020-21) Education Skills Lead @ Microsoft (Public Sector Group)
"TFHK gave me a multi-sector perspective on education. It made me realize the possibility and potential of cross-sector collaboration in education."
Sabrina Cheng (Fellow 2018-19) Senior Associate @ The Global Development Incubator
"Fellowship to me is a chance of aligning my work with my values. It allows me to go to the place where I feel most confident to apply the skills and knowledge to create long-lasting impact."
Kayla Chow (Fellow 2021-22) Teacher @ PLKCKTPS
"The partner school I served at gave me the flexibility to implement innovations, such as designing a set of exercise with different levels to cater learning diversity."
Raymond Yang (Fellow 2017-18) Co-Founder @ JUST FEEL 感講
"In the year of Fellowship, I found that the public often ignored the emotional needs of children. All these realization then became inspirations for my entrepreneurship - JUST FEEL."