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Summer Programs 2020: 10 – 15 years
April 2020The Teachers Collective is happy to announce our online programs – open to companies and groups with joint pricing as well as to individual students on a stand alone basis. We have worked with over 1,000 students and 600 teachers in the past 3 years and promise to keep learning fun!
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Digital Literacy – Identifying Fake News
April 2020The Teachers Collective will be presenting a session for educators on the identifying of fake news and fact checking, in partnership with Quest Alliance on Friday, 24th April, 2020 at 4 pm.
Details of the Zoom link are below, it will also be livestreamed on Quest Alliance’s facebook page.
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Fake news categorized
April 2020At our programs in debating, we teach students about fake news. Here are some categories that we see emerging clearly over the past few years:
Factual fakes
» Read more about: Fake news categorized » that are relatively harmless in content (but end up being the first step in the path leading to more gullibility) – elephants drunk on rice wine in China due to the lack of crowds in Corona lockdown times, dolphins in Venice’s canals.
Online Sessions – Study Skills & Debating
March 2020In light of recent developments, The Teachers Collective (optimistic as we are about face-to-face classes at some point, hopefully soon) will go online next week with Study Skills and Debating workshops.
It is an abbreviated 1 hour session, keeping the new format in perspective.
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Summer Programs 2020
March 2020We’re happy to announce our summer programs this April and May as follows. We had a successful set of sessions last summer and have had parents and students ask for sessions this summer as well.
All sessions are 10 am to 1 pm.
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The Merchant of Venice
July 2019The Teachers Collective is happy to announce our 2-part workshop on The Merchant Of Venice. Shakespeare’s classic comes to life: we seek to understand the context of the play and appreciate the Bard’s genius, while getting a better understanding of the characters and plot of the evergreen play.
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Rolling Program – June through August
May 2019Several parents and children asked us for a rolling program, something that will help them remember and implement the skills, strategies and methods we taught and sustain the confidence levels they have built up. The Teachers Collective is happy to announce our rolling program. The details are:
Location: My Bo Tree, Koramangala
Dates: June 1st, July 6th, July 20th, August 3rd, August 24th and August 31st (Saturdays)
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Fee: Rs.
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When we were in the newspaper!
April 2019The Teachers Collective made its debut in an online newspaper article last week. We had no idea how we got into the public eye but hey, it gives us hope that sincere, passionate, fun learning is newspaper worthy stuff! The kind of nation we want to build is this, one where kids question and back up their rational arguments with evidence, take ownership for their learning and get organized…are self aware of their goals, long and short term…the list would go on, if it were up to us!
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The Teachers Collective in B’luru is teaching children study skills to deal with difficult subjects. Here’s how
April 2019These teachers aim to teach children the methods to approach some of the most difficult subjects taught in schools, and skills like time management and writing skills
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Summer Programs At My Bo Tree, Koramangala
January 2019The Teachers Collective is happy to announce our summer program for Study Skills and Debating at My Bo Tree in Koramangala.
Study skills are skills that enable you to study and learn efficiently, an important set of transferable life skills that will hold you in good stead at all ages and levels of education.
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