Career and College Planning

CAREER AND COLLEGE READY SKILLS

Career and college ready skills are a core set of skills needed to be ready for work and college. The center of the career pathways wheel shows necessary knowledge and foundation skills that are important to every person regardless of future occupation.

CAREER FIELDS

Career areas are divided into six broad categories called Career Fields. Each Career Field contains careers that are similar to each other. By placing the careers in fields, students are able to see many options that may be of interest to them. The list of careers on the Career Fields picture (above) is by no means comprehensive but it does help students select courses that will help them explore various careers of interest to them.

Each colored section represents a Career Field with the name of the field listed at the top of the section.

There are six (6) Career Fields.

“Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources” Career Field is in green
“Art, Communication, and Information Systems” Career Field is in purple
“Engineering, Manufacturing, & Technology” Career Field is in orange
“Health Science Technology” Career Field is in red
“Human Services” Career Field is in blue
“Business, Management, & Administration” Career Field is in yellow

CAREER CLUSTERS

Underneath the six career fields are sixteen career clusters (e.g. “Marketing” in the Business, Management, & Administration field). Careers with the same knowledge and skills are grouped in the same cluster.

CAREER PATHWAYS

A career pathway has its own knowledge and skill requirements. Educational programs can be developed around each pathway. They include courses and curriculum that helps learners prepare for a career. Career pathways show learners of all ages which courses will give them the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to pursue their career choice. Courses in District 742 high schools are aligned to programs of study and help students as they pursue college and university certificates, diploma, and degree programs.

Get Started on College Credits While in High School!

There are several different forms of college credit a student can earn while in high school. Check out the options below!

Articulated College Credit

Articulated credits are college credits that students may be eligible to receive through the successful completion of their CTE courses. Students must meet eligibility requirements for each of these credits, as determined by the post-secondary institution awarding the credits. To learn more or manage you account, click here.

Concurrent Enrollment

Concurrent enrollment courses are college courses offered at the high school, usually taught by a trained high school teacher. These are offered in partnership with a college or university. Students who successfully complete these courses generate both high school and transcripted college credit from the partnering postsecondary institution. Many people refer to these courses as College in the High School. To learn more, click here.

Advanced Placement

Advanced Placement (AP) is a College Board program that offers Minnesota high school students the opportunity to take rigorous, college-level courses and the potential to earn college credit while in high school. To learn more, click here.

Post Secondary Enrollment Option

Post-secondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) is a program that allows public and nonpublic students in 10th, 11th and 12th grades to earn college credit while still in high school, through enrollment in and successful completion of college nonsectarian courses at eligible post-secondary institutions. Students generate both college credit and high school credit by successful completion of the course. To learn more click here.

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