WHAT IS A
TAP
?
A
TAP is a Texas Achievement Plan, and it’s a smart postsecondary education goals. Don’t worry. You aren’t
idea to create one to guide your studies through locked into your choices. You should revisit your TAP
high school and into college or other postsecondary at least once a year to update it. You can change clusters,
education or training. Your TAP represents your chance programs of study, and career and postsecondary goals as
to take control of your education and career choices. your interests and ambitions change. Having a plan—even
Working with your parents/guardians and guidance if it changes—is smarter than having no idea of what you
counselor, you can pick the cluster on which you want to do and why you are attending school. Here’s how
want to focus your studies as well as your career and to fill out your TAP.
PICk a program of study within the cluster.
There are three programs of study within
CHoosE a career cluster on which to
LIsT basic
the Architecture & Construction cluster
focus your high school and college or
information such as
(see page 12).
postsecondary studies. The idea is to
your name and school.
offer you a seamless route to follow from
high school, through college or other
postsecondary education, and into a career.
CHoosE one or more occupations for
not all Texas schools offer all clusters, so
tex
as
Ac
hie
vem
en
t P
lan
which you would like to prepare. use
ask your guidance counselor which clusters
Nam
e: Ta
ylor
jone
s
resources such as osCAR (www.ioscar.
are available at your school.
Sch
ool:
west
High
sch
ool
org/tx) to research your options.
Clus
ter:
arch
itect
ure &
con
struct
ion
Prog
ram
of S
tudy
: des
ign/p
re-c
onst
ructi
on
Care
er Go
al: a
rchit
ect
e
Pos
tsec
ond
ary
Goa
l: ba
chel
or’s
degr
ee in
arch
itect
ure
11th
Grad
e
12th
Grad
10th
Grad
e
alcu
lus
PLAn for what you want to do after high school. 9th Gra
de algebr
a II
prec
your goal may be to attend a four-year university
geom
etry
alge
bra I engl
ish II
I
engl
ish Iv
or two-year college, join the military, or enter an e
nglis
h II
apprenticeship program. your postsecondary goal
engl
ish I phy
sics
engi
neer
ing
chem
istry
should influence the classes you take in high school; biology
istor
y
gove
rnme
nt/e
cono
mics
for example, you will need certain course credits to
worl
d Hist
ory
u.s.
H
n
qualify for admission to a college.
worl
d ge
ogra
phy
com
mun
icati
o fine
arts
appl
icati
ons
lang
uage
s oth
er Th
an
lang
uage
s oth
er Th
an e
nglis
h II
engl
ish I
engi
neer
ing o
r
Heal
th/p
e or
equ
ivale
nt
Tech
nolo
gy a
pplic
ation
s
pe o
r eq
uival
ent
arch
itect
ural
arch
itect
ural
draf
ting
III
ng
draf
ting
II
or d
raftin
g III o
r bu
ildi
skETCH out your schedule of classes for your
Tech
nolo
gy s
yste
ms (
mod
ular
or Trad
es II
or H
ousin
g,
Intro
duct
ion t
o co
nstru
ction
d la
b) o
r pa
intin
g an
d
high school years. Most of your time will be
draf
ting
II
furn
ishin
gs, a
nd e
quip
men
t
Trad
es o
r dr
aftin
g I o
r
base
deco
ratin
g or
arch
itect
ural
prod
uctio
n, m
anag
eme
nt,
spent taking your core academic courses. By
Inter
ior d
esign
and
Hou
sing
grap
hics
or a
rchit
ectu
ral
or b
uildin
g Tra
des
I
al or and s
ervic
es o
r ca
reer
or l
ands
cape
, des
ign,
const
ructi
on o
r ar
chite
ctur
prep
arati
on II
carefully selecting your electives, you can get
const
ructi
on, a
nd m
ainte
nanc
e
draf
ting
I care
er pr
epar
ation
I
ems
the education and experience you need to start
or c
onst
ructi
on s
yst
toward the profession of your choice.
Care
er Le
arnin
g Ex
perie
nces
: app
rentic
eship
, care
er pr
epara
tion—
paid
or un
paid,
Inter
nship
, job
shad
owin
g
ology
stud
ent a
ssoci
ation
onfer
ence
s,
Curr
icula
r Exp
erien
ces:
fccl
a, sk
illsus
a, Te
chn
Extra
curr
icula
r Exp
erien
ces:
archi
tectu
ral/en
ginee
ring s
umm
er ca
mps,
asso
ciatio
n of g
enera
l con
tracto
r c
ounc
il
Hi
storic
build
ing T
ours,
Hom
e Tou
rs, st
uden
t c
PICk extended learning activities that complement
es: H
abita
t for H
uman
ity
Serv
ice L
earn
ing E
xper
ienc
your classes (see page 14). Work on community
service projects. Plan for paid and unpaid career
learning experiences, such as job shadowing and
A Career Portfolio (see page 15) is a good way
internships. All these extracurricular activities
to organize information about your educational
can give you experience that will help you get into
experiences, record results of career interest and
abilities assessments, and hold examples of your
college or land a job.
best work. Include a TAP in your portfolio.
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