Tech Prep
What is Tech Prep?

Tech Prep is College Prep for Technical Careers. Tech Prep is a way to start a college technical major in high school. In a Tech Prep program, you begin your course of study in high school and continue in a community or technical college. The result is a certificate or associate degree in a career field.Tech Prep programs combine the academic courses needed for success in college and technical courses that begin to prepare you for a career.Students in Tech Prep programs can earn college credit through:

• content-enhanced articulated courses (statewide articulation and/or local articulation)

• dual credit (concurrent enrollment)

• College Board Advanced Placement (AP)

Tech Prep programs must include the following elements to be eligible for federal funding:

• articulation agreement

• appropriate curriculum design

• curriculum development

• in-service teacher training

• counselor training

• equal access for special populations

• preparatory services

Check here for more information: http://www.techpreptexas.org.

The Statewide Articulation Program

Panola College is a member of the East Texas Tech Prep Consortium. Articulation agreements are developed between secondary and postsecondary institutions in order to provide non-duplicative, sequential programs of study for students that link high school and college instruction. Tech Prep educational programs, or 6-year plans, are program-level articulation agreements.

Course-to-course articulation agreements grant college credit to students who have acquired occupational competencies from high school courses that are equivalent to those acquired in entry-level college technical courses. Such course-to-course agreements are frequent components of articulated Tech Prep programs.

Check here for more information about Statewide Articulation Program:
http://www.techpreptexas.org/articulation/aintro.htm.

For information about Panola College's Tech Prep programs contact Dr. Lillian Cook at lcook@panola.edu.