TEACH Grant

To receive a TEACH Grant you must do the following and/or meet the following criteria:

In exchange for receiving a TEACH grant, you must agree to serve as a full-time teacher in a high-need field at an elementary or secondary school that serves low-income students. You must teach for at least four academic years within eight calendar years of completing the program of study for which you received a TEACH grant.

IMPORTANT
If you fail to complete this service obligation, all amounts of TEACH grants that you received will be converted to a Federal Direct Unsubsidized Stafford Loan. You must then repay this loan to the U.S. Department of Education. You will be charged interest from the date the grant(s) was disbursed.

High-need fields are the specific areas identified below:

• Bilingual Education and English Language Acquisition
• Foreign Language
• Mathematics
• Reading Specialist
• Science
• Special Education
• Other identified teacher shortage areas as of the time you begin teaching in that field.

These are teacher subject shortage areas that are listed in the Department of Education’s Annual Teacher Shortage Area Nationwide Listing.

Schools serving low-income students include any elementary or secondary school that is listed in the Department of Education’s Annual Directory of Designated Low-Income Schools for Teacher Cancellation Benefits.

Undergraduate

• Up to $4,000 per year, up to four years – under the Undergraduate header

Aggregate Limits

• Undergraduate students are eligible for a maximum of $16,000 in TEACH grant funding over the course of four years.

1. File a FAFSA at fafsa.gov
2. Be a committed and deposited student to Tiffin University in our Middle School Education – Science Licensure program.
3. If you are eligible for the grant based on an ACT/SAT score at or above the 75^th percentile, submit a copy of your test results to the Financial Aid Office with your grant application.
4. If you have any questions, contact finaid@tiffin.edu.

Complete the Federal TEACH Grant Agreement to Serve and Initial Counseling for each year that you receive this grant at  studentaid.gov

Each year you receive a TEACH grant, you must sign a TEACH Grant Agreement to Serve that is available at studentaid.gov.

For each TEACH Grant-eligible program for which you received TEACH Grant funds, you must serve as a full-time teacher for a total of at least four academic years within eight calendar years after you completed or withdrew from the academic program for which you received the TEACH Grant.

• • You must perform the teaching service as a highly-qualified teacher at a low-income school. The term highly-qualified teacher is defined in section 9101 (23) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 or in section 602 (10) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
  • You must comply with any other requirements that the Department of Education determines to be necessary.

Important Reminder 
If you receive a TEACH Grant but do not complete the required teaching service, as explained above, you will be required to repay the grants as a Federal Direct Unsubsidized Stafford Loan, with interest charged from the date of each TEACH Grant disbursement.

Complete the mandatory exit counseling for the Federal TEACH Grant at  studentaid.gov