High School - Career & Technology Education and Tech Prep

Tech Prep is a college-preparatory, advanced placement program that provides students with academic as well as applied technical skills. The high school program prepares students to continue in a college program that leads to a minimum of a two-year postsecondary degree (or apprenticeship license). Consequently, Tech Prep high school graduation plans are based on the Recommended High School Program (RHSP).

A Tech Prep student’s high school graduation plan includes a coherent sequence of two (2) or more career and technology courses for three (3) or more credits. At least one of these career and technology courses must be eligible for college credit through articulation (local or statewide), or dual credit by concurrent enrollment.

The CATE (Career & Technology Education) courses offered at the high school include those from the following list. Not all courses are available in the required sequence to comply with Tech Prep regulations.

ART DEPARTMENT
Intro to Advertising
Desktop Design
INDUSTRIAL ARTS DEPARTMENT
Computer Applications
Engineering Graphics
Architectural Graphics
Manufacturing Systems
Technology Systems
Manufacturing Technology
FAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
Child Development
Nutrition & Food Science
Housing
Personal & Family Development
Apparel I & II
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Business Computer Information Systems I
Business Image Management & Multimedia
Business Law
Accounting I & II

 

Tech Prep students are identified in grades 9-12 by the following:

• The student has a 4-year Tech Prep high school graduation plan described above; and
• The student has enrolled in, or completed, the first career and technology course in the plan.

Students are coded annually as Career and Technology Indicator Code (C/T) PEIMS code 3 based on their intent to continue to follow this graduation plan.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION OF NONDISCRIMINATION IN CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS

For further information on the program:
http://www.techpreptexas.org/
http://www.ettp.org/