WHAT IS A
TAP
?
A
TAP is a Texas Achievement Plan, and it’s a as your career and postsecondary education goals. Don’t
smart idea to create one to guide your studies worry. You aren’t locked into your choices. You should
through high school and into college or other revisit your TAP at least once a year to update it. You
postsecondary education or training. Your TAP can change clusters, programs of study, and career and
represents your chance to take control of your education postsecondary goals as your interests and ambitions
and career choices. Working with your parents/ change. Having a plan—even if it changes—is smarter
guardians and guidance counselor, you can pick the than having no idea of what you want to do and why you
cluster on which you want to focus your studies as well are attending school. Here’s how to fill out your TAP.
Pick a program of study within the
cluster. there are six programs within the
chOOsE a career cluster on which to
List basic
manufacturing cluster (see page 12).
focus your high school and college or
information such as
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
not all texas schools offer all clusters, so
tex
as
Ac
hie
vem
en
t P
lan
for which you would like to prepare.
ask your guidance counselor which clusters
Nam
e: Ta
ylor
Jone
s
use resources such as Oscar
are available at your school.
Sch
ool:
west
High
sch
ool
(www.ioscar.org/tx) to research your
Clus
ter:
man
ufact
uring
options.
Prog
ram
of S
tudy
: ma
inten
ance
, Inst
allat
ion,
and
repa
ir
Care
er Go
al: In
dust
rial T
echn
ician
Pos
tsec
ond
ary
Goa
l: dr
aftin
g ce
rtific
ate,
bach
elor’
s de
gree
in d
esign
Tech
nolo
gy
12th
Grad
e
11th
Grad
e
10th
Grad
e
PLan for what you want to do after high school. 9
th Gr
ade
l mod
els w
ith ap
plicat
ions
algeb
ra II
Your goal may be to attend a four-year university
geom
etry
math
emat
ica
engli
sh Iv
algeb
ra I english III
or two-year college, join the military, or enter an
engli
sh II
engin
eerin
g
engli
sh I physics
apprenticeship program. Your postsecondary goal
chem
istry govern
ment
/econ
omics
should influence the classes you take in high school;
biolo
gy
u.s. H
istory
rld Hi
story
fine
arts
for example, you will need certain course credits to world g
eogra
phy
wo
s
qualify for admission to a college.
lang
uage
s oth
er com
muni
catio
n app
licatio
n
lang
uage
s oth
er
Than
engl
ish II
Than
engl
ish I
velop
ment

Health
/pe o
r equ
ivalen
t
Techn
ology
appl
icatio
ns
pe or
equi
valen
t
energ
y, pow
er, an
d rese
arch
desig
n and
de
ions
or pr
oblem
s and
solu
t
phics
Trans
porta
tion s
ystem
s
in Tec
hnolo
gy
Techn
ology
syste
ms engine
ering
gra
or po
wer T
echno
logy
or m
anufa
cturin
g Tec
hnolo
gy
skEtch
(mod
ular l
ab-ba
sed) or engin
eerin
g prin
ciples

or m
anufa
cturin
g sys
tems

out your schedule of classes for your or elec
trical
Trade
s
or el
ectro
nics T
echno
logy

or In
trodu
ction
to ro
botics
high school years. Most of your time will be
or In
dustr
ial ele
ctron
ics
or c
onstr
uction
syste
ms
or m
achin
e sho
p
spent taking your core academic courses. By
carefully selecting your electives, you can get
Curr
icula
r Exp
erien
ces:
skills
usa,
Tech
nolog
y stu
dent
asso
ciatio
n
Job
shad
owin
g
the education and experience you need to start
Extra
curr
icula
r Exp
erien
ce: s
cienc
e oly
mpia
d
r, Hab
itat fo
r Hum
anity
toward the profession of your choice.
Care
er Le
arnin
g Ex
perie
nces
: app
rentic
eship
s, ca
reer
prepa
ration
—pa
id an
d unp
aid, I
ntern
ships
,
ica, c
omm
unity
serv
ice v
olunt
ee
Serv
ice L
earn
ing E
xper
ienc
es: b
oy sc
outs
of am
er
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
service projects. Plan for paid and unpaid career
your educational experiences, record
learning experiences, such as job shadowing and
results of career interest and abilities
internships. all these extracurricular activities assessments, and hold examples of your
can give you experience that will help you get into best work. include a taP in your portfolio.
college or land a job.
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