Teach For Armenia
part of the Armenia Education Initiative (AEI)
Lead change where it matters most.
Teach For Armenia is cultivating a movement of leaders committed to ensuring that all children in Armenia, including those displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), have access to quality education, and to driving systemic transformation across the education system.
As AEI's flagship National Leadership Program, and the 36th partner of the global Teach For All network, we treat education as a strategic pillar of the country's future.
Over a two-year journey, you'll teach in a classroom that needs you and join a community, more than a decade in the making, of values-driven leaders who understand that every classroom is an opportunity for leadership, and that nation-building begins with education.
Join something ambitious, meaningful, and larger than yourself, and become the leader you'd want to follow.
Why Start in Education
Armenia faces deep educational inequality.
A child's access to strong teaching still depends heavily on whether they live in Yerevan or a rural community, and those gaps are structural, not accidental. They will not close on their own. Closing them requires leaders who begin their careers inside the classroom and go on to build the country itself.
Teach For Armenia exists because education is not a side issue; it is national infrastructure. Who teaches our children shapes who Armenia becomes. This is leadership development in the form of service: two years of disciplined, full-time work where the need is real. You will not serve alone. The program invests seriously in your growth, because Armenia needs leaders who combine commitment with competence.
Why Teach For Armenia
Teach For Armenia enables a generation of leaders to serve where the need is real, and equips them to keep leading long after. Over two years, you receive:
A paid, full-time teaching role in a partner public school
Intensive pre-service training before you enter the classroom
Structured leadership and instructional development throughout both years
Individual coaching and mentorship, in the classroom and outside it
A teaching-credential pathway and the opportunity to apply for a funded Master's degree
A national and global network of peers, mentors, and alumni through Teach For All partnership
Career support and defined pathways after the program
Where Your Experience Can Take You
Two years in the classroom prepare you to lead across sectors. The skills, credentials, and relationships you build support three broad pathways:
School and Education Leadership
Grow into a master teacher, school leader, instructional coach, or teacher educator, strengthening teaching, learning, and school culture from the inside.
Public Policy and Governance
Bring your classroom and community experience into government, public institutions, research, and system-level reform.
Corporate Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship
Apply the leadership, adaptability, and problem-solving the classroom demands in business, technology, startups, and international institutions.
Whichever path you choose, you join ~500 Teach For Armenia alumni and a global community spanning more than 60 countries.
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What You Commit To
As a Teacher Leader, you commit to:
- Teaching full-time for two academic years in a partner public school, where educational opportunity is most limited
- Relocating to your placement community and becoming part of it
- Holding yourself to the standard your students deserve, every day of both years
- Leading beyond your classroom: in your school, and with families and the wider community
Impact That Lasts
- 20,000+
- students reached annually
- ~500
- alumni
- 10
- regions across Armenia
- 70%
- of alumni remain in education or public service
The harder measures matter more: communities re-engaging with their schools. Children daring to imagine futures of their own choosing. A growing corps of Armenians who have served, and who will lead.
If you believe Armenia's future is built rather than promised, and that leadership begins with responsibility, invest your knowledge, time, and energy where it matters most.