Graduation Planning with your Future Career in Mind

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Graduation Planning with your Future Career in
Mind
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Career Pathway Graduation Plan

• Graduation plans not only put you on track to
  graduate from high school, but can also prepare
  you for life after high school.
• Pearland ISD offers a wide variety of educational
  opportunities based on
• 16 different Career Clusters.

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What are Career Clusters?

• Career Clusters are broad groupings of
  occupations based on similarities.

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For Example

• Information Technology
• is one of the Career Clusters.

Possible Occupations that fall under the
Information Technology Career Cluster
Network Engineer PC Support Specialist Database
Administrator Desktop Publisher Web
Designer Software Programmer Digital Media
Designer
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Look at your test results. Which Career Cluster
did you score the highest on? Do you think you
might be interested in pursuing a career in this
area?
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If so, what courses would you take in high school
to begin preparation for that career area?
If you know that you are interested in a
different Career Cluster, which one is it? What
courses would prepare you for that career area?
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Notice that your graduation plan sheet lists all
of the courses you need to graduate. There are
spots set aside that allow you to meet graduation
requirements by taking Career Pathway Electives.
What courses would you fill in the Career
Pathway Elective spots that correspond with your
career interests?
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For Example

• If Information Technology
• is your favored Career Cluster/Pathway, you would
  choose from some of the below courses to fill in
  the
• Career Pathway Elective spots.

Keyboarding Business Multimedia Business
Computer Information Systems Telecommunications
Networking Computer Maintenance Computer Science
I Computer Science A, B Digital
Graphics/Animation Video Technology
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