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What is Tech Prep Course Credit?
Tech Prep programs provide valuable education, technical skills and specialized training for all Texas youth. Through an innovative combination of high school classroom study and real-world work experience, Tech-Prep students receive valuable skills and technical training that prepare them to enter the world of work sooner, better educated, and better trained. Tech-Prep students start learning technical skills and earning college credit while they are still in high school. Highly versatile, challenging, hands-on, and responsive to current trends in local industry, Tech-Prep programs combine the academic courses needed for success in school with the technical courses that begin to prepare students for a career.
Tech-Prep Course Credit has proven results. Research shows that Tech-Prep students have higher attendance rates, higher graduation rates, lower dropout rates, and go on to college at higher rates than their peers. And further, that Tech-Prep works for under-represented and at-risk students.
Tech-Prep Course Credit makes good sense in your community. Times have changed. For today's youth to be successful, it is every bit as important that they make good career decisions as it is that they make good grades in school. As you know, more and more of today's jobs require technical skills and specialized training. Tech-Prep students have the opportunity to explore career options early. In this hands-on, challenging environment students discover their own interests and skills and experience practical, real-world ways to pursue their goals in a wide variety of high-skill, high-wage technical careers.
Tech-Prep is good for local business and industry. Employers need good employees who are educated, trained, and ready to work. Tech-Prep helps local business and industry by providing:
Quality employees - Local neighborhood and community employers are armed with an educated workforce
Qualified workers - Tech-Prep students are trained and ready to work
Relevant workforce training - Tech-Prep students are educated and trained in response to the needs of local business and industry
Locally based workforce - Local youth study, train, and work in the community
Quick turnaround - Tech-Prep students can receive an associate degree in as little as 1 1/2 years after high school graduation
A Win/Win Relationship - Through local internships and co-ops, business and industry can provide real world training through partnerships with community teachers and students while receiving valuable skills and labor in return
Ideas for strengthening Tech-Prep in your area: Participation on your community's or local school's advisory board is an effective way to add support for College Tech-Prep in your area. By providing input on training and relevant industry skills and content, you can make a significant impact on the nature and quality of your local workforce, business and industry, and your community.
Business Partners 2009-2010
