Perkins Tech Prep

The goal of the State's Tech Prep program is to promote and support high school to college transitions for career and technical education students. Tech Prep initiatives should be enhancing a high school student's technical and academic skills and providing opportunities for transition to postsecondary education or into the workforce.

Tech Prep Coordinators by WTCS Technical Colleges (PDF file)

Ways in Which High School Students Can Earn Technical College Credit through Articulation

Articulation refers to aligning high school and postsecondry curricula to create sequences of courses offering skill attainment with unnecessary duplication. Articulation focuses on providing opportunities for high school students to take college level course work in order to get a head start on earning college credits while continuing to fulfill high school graduation requirments. The above link displays a chart which shows the differences between Advanced Standing and Transcripted Credit.

Use Links to the right to access the Tech Prep Portion of the FY 2009-10 Perkins IV Grant Guidelines (Page 56 in the Guidelines)	MS Word	PDF
Use Links to the right to access the High School to College Transition Portion of the FY 2009-10 Perkins IV Grant Guidelines (Page 46 in the Guidelines)	MS Word	PDF

Additional Resources

National Career Pathways Network
NCPN, Formally the National Tech Prep Network, will provide resources for Programs of Study, Career Pathways and Clusters as well as strategies for smooth transitions from Secondary to Post Secondary Education.

US Department of Education and Tech Prep

For more information contact ann.westrich@wtcsystem.edu at (608) 261-4588.

Last modified: June 17, 2009.