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Hello All, In the next couple of months i am targeting companies like Apple , American express, Salesforce, Microsoft etc. Can anyone please share the required skill set and preparation strategy for these companies? YoE - 4 years Current skill set - Advanced SQL , Pyspark,Azure services, Hadoop ecosystem , shell scripting, Power BI
I am not very good at DSA.
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Came on here to recommend the Seth Godin read. Good luck in your journey.
I heard of a website a while back that can provide the curriculum based on your area. I'll ask the wife and let you know.
Was homeschooled in elementary school and survived 😋. Do what’s best for your Kid.
Hey, yep, we homeschool, and I know many other families who do. The great thing about doing so in 2020 is that this experiment has been going on for over 30 years and the results are in. They couldn’t be more conclusive as to the positive nature of this phenomenon. I think at the moment around 3-6% of the population are homeschooling their kids. We’re talking 2-3 million. So if anyone comes at you with a “you’ll ruin your kid” attitude - they simply haven’t read up on the latest facts and figures.
It is absolutely the “harder choice,” one you’ll question and at times kick yourself, but if you’re committed, there be dragons as well as gold in them hills there!
In terms of choosing a curriculum, my number one suggestion would be to attend a homeschooling convention. See them all, then zero in on what appeals to you. I was blown away by the first convention that I attended. In particular I was not expecting the quantity and quality of resources that were available. The variety of curriculums was something else. The ability to mix and match different components, the extracurricular options you can bolt on... let’s just say it was eye opening.
I’ll give you a heads up though, there’s a strong conservative christian influence at most of these conventions since these folks have really been the ones to move forward the state of this art over the last few decades. The non-religious crowd is starting to wake up to the benefits of homeschooling, but their number pale in overall comparison. So depending on your own background, you might have to utilize a bit of that tolerance and diversity training.
Although many early homeschooling families were Protestant Christians, the original movement itself was ideologically diverse and not inherently religious. In the early years of the movement the most common trait homeschooling families had in common was an embrace of the unconventional and a willingness to be seen as nonconformists in relation to mainstream culture. As sociologist Mitchell L. Stevens says, the early members of the movement included “anarchists, practicing witches, macrobiotic vegetarians, devotees of family beds, Orthodox Jews, and a large number of fundamentalist Christians.”
The number one principle in our approach to homeschooling our little one is that it would not be forced. In other words, if the child wants to do it, we allow her, but there is no compulsion.
I discovered a gentleman by the name of Glenn Doman, Who developed a unique way of working with kids over the last 50 years.. Of all the different ways to implement his ideas, I would say the most effective curriculum for us has been BrillKids: http://www.brillkids.com/ra.php?BKAFF164165
We started early, around one-year-old with my first girl, and she was reading by 3. She is now four and can read in multiple languages. She is just starting to read in English, whereas the foreign language we decided to start her off with, well she is reading at a fourth grade level. Kinda wild to have your four year old reading chapter books to put daddy to sleep!
We also used https://www.readingbear.org to get her English up to speed.
One of the keys to our success was an absolute control on media, which means, that unless it was educational, she was not allowed to watch it. So that means she has not seen a single cartoon up until now, the only animated things she has seen pertain to the things she was learning in “school.”
It’s difficult to take such an approach, but it’s awesome because you can use the addictive nature of media to compel the child to learn. So we associated any kind of computer time with “school.“
We also started using “The Life of Fred“ books to teach her math. it’s a really funky/unique way of doing it, but also very interesting how math is seen as part of every day life, as opposed to worksheets that must be filled out. The books really held her attention as well.
And lastly, we’ve started giving her access to various apps as part of school, such as the anatomy app by Tinybop: https://apps.apple.com/us/app-bundle/tinybop-explorers-1-10/id1350802724
Now that she actually has to start “formal” school, we’re thinking of doing a curriculum called “the good and the beautiful“ though I’m not entirely sold on it. I guess I’ll head off to one of those conventions this spring to see if I can find something that matches our interests better.
Thank you for the comprehensive follow up. I definitely appreciate your insights.
We are not particularly religious. Our son, while it autistic, as some traits of autism. To be honest who really knows given the nature of the syndrome. We tried public school but honestly felt they treated him as a problem to be dealt with. Mind you that he is a very sweet boy with no aggressive behavioral issues. We see so much potential in him but it just wasn’t brought out in school. Instead of focusing g on developing where he excelled, and he does incredibly well in some areas, he was held back by where he was less naturally inclined. We are looking to unleash his potential and allow him to blossom where public school could not. We have found some support but much negativity. In the short time that we have been homeschooling we have seen remarkable progress. He is well above grade level in many areas. Our concern is for the future and ensuring that his education at a minimum stays within what would be considered grade appropriate. Hence the question about curriculum. It is a difficult balance though as we allow him to explore his gifted areas yet organically grow in areas he may lag.
Apologies if this is rambling. This is the most important thing in the world to me and I fret endlessly about messing it up.
You are not rambling and allow me to assure you, there is absolutely NO WAY that a dedicated and caring parent like you could do a worse job than a public school. If you think about a typical day at school, the homeroom, study periods, the shuffling of the masses from one class to another, lunch times... there really isn’t anymore than 3 hours of learning in a typical day!
But now, you have a highly invested instructor providing one-on-one instruction to your child, tailoring the curriculum specifically to this student. There is absolutely no way anyone could do it better than that! And if you have doubts about that, then you have an unhealthy estimation of our public school system! 😄
Absolutely there are dangers if parents and anti-social wing-nuts and just want the kids to stare at a screen all day long and call it learning. That’s just messed up.
Forget all the naysayers, if you really think about it, this is the way people have learned for ages! Here’s an awesome little booklet from Seth Godin that made me question some of the most fundamental presuppositions that I had about our educational system.
https://seths.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/stop-stealing-dreams6print.pdf
Hi. My niece is autistic, high functioning. But is very slow to process certain things and super proficient at other things. She was struggling in school even in a major metro with lots of iep, counselor, and third party support. We moved her to a school that caters to special needs kids. It’s sad that the public system doesn’t support autistic kids very well, but at any rate. She has been thriving. She’s a junior in hs now and while she probably won’t be able to attend a traditional college, her school is doing a great job with figuring out how she can be a contributing member of society. She is really into animals. So she is thinking something related to that.