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
cHoose a career cluster on which to
lIsT basic
cluster. There are five programs of
focus your high school and college or
information such as
study within the Human services
postsecondary studies. The idea is to
your name and school.
cluster (see page 12).
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:
Hum
an s
ervic
es
Prog
ram
of S
tudy
: fam
ily &
com
mun
ity s
ervic
es
Care
er Go
al: d
ietiti
an
12th
Grad
e
Pos
tsec
ond
ary
Goa
l: ba
chel
or’s
degr
ee in
foo
ds a
nd n
utriti
on
11th
Grad
e
10th
Grad
e
preca
lculus
PlAn for what you want to do after high school.
9th G
rade al
gebra
II
geom
etry english
Iv
Your goal may be to attend a four-year university algebra I e
nglish
III
or two-year college, join the military, or enter an
engli
sh II ap biol
ogy
engli
sh I p
hysics
apprenticeship program. Your postsecondary goal
chem
istry
should influence the classes you take in high school;
biolo
gy u.s.
Histo
ry
gove
rnme
nt/ec
onom
ics
world
Histo
ry
for example, you will need certain course credits to wo
rld ge
ograp
hy
qualify for admission to a college.
lang
uage
s oth
er Th
an en
glish
I
lang
uage
s oth
er Th
an en
glish
II
comm
unica
tion a
pplica
tions
fine
arts
clinic
al nutr
ition
or fa
mily
Health
/pe o
r equ
ivalen
t
Techn
ology
appl
icatio
ns
pe or
equi
valen
t
and c
areer
man
agem
ent
food
scie
nce a
nd Te
chno
logy o
r
child
deve
lopm
ent o
r nutr
ition
and
or In
depe
nden
t stud
y or
Health
scie
nce T
echn
ology
II or
perso
nal a
nd fa
mily d
evelo
pmen
t
food
scie
nce o
r bus
iness
com
puter
n eng
lish II
I
lang
uage
s oth
er Th
an en
glish
Iv
or In
trodu
ction
to He
alth
Inform
ation
syst
ems
I or H
ealth
lang
uage
s oth
er Th
a
skeTcH
scien
ce Te
chno
logy a
nd m
edica
l
scien
ce Te
chno
logy I
out your schedule of classes for your
Term
inolo
gy
high school years. most of your time will be
spent taking your core academic courses. By
Care
er Le
arnin
g Ex
perie
nces
: car
eer p
repar
ation
—pa
id an
d unp
aid, I
ntern
ship,
Job
shad
owin
g
carefully selecting your electives, you can get
Curr
icula
r Exp
erien
ces:
fami
ly, ca
reer
and c
omm
unity
lead
ers o
f ame
rica (
fccl
a), H
ealth
occu
patio
ns st
uden
ts of
ame
rica (
Hosa
)
rogra
ms, 4
-H Yo
uth d
evelo
pmen
t, sci
ence
club
s,
the education and experience you need to start
Extra
curr
icula
r Exp
erien
ces:
lang
uage
Imm
ersio
n p
me
dical
miss
ion Tr
ips, s
peec
h/de
bate
ervic
e org
aniza
tions
, com
muni
ty se
rvice
volu
nteer
, stud
ent b
ody
toward the profession of your choice.
Serv
ice L
earn
ing E
xper
ienc
es: c
ampu
s s
PIck extended learning activities that complement
A Career Portfolio (see page 15) is a
your classes (see page 14). work on community
good way to organize information about your
service projects. Plan for paid and unpaid career
educational experiences, record results of
learning experiences, such as job shadowing and career interest and abilities assessments,
internships. All these extracurricular activities and hold examples of your best work.
can give you experience that will help you get into
Include a TAP in your portfolio.
college or land a job.
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