Arlington Tech Academic Planning Tonight's Agenda Graduation - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Arlington Tech Academic Planning

Tonight's Agenda ● Graduation Requirements ● Selecting Courses for Next Year ● Course Selection Timeline ● Dual Enrollment Opportunities ● Filling out your Course Request Form (CRF) ● Teacher Recommendations ● Q & A

Virginia State Standard Diploma Requirements 9th grade

Virginia State Standard Diploma Requirements 10th 11th 12th

Virginia State Advanced Diploma Requirements 9th grade

Virginia State Advanced Diploma Requirements 10th 11th 12th

Individual Topics Discussed Academic Planning ● Post graduation plans Sessions with ● Career interests Students ● Diploma requirements ● Grades https://tinyurl.com/y9zwha56

Step one for ● Use pencil, write clearly students ● Write your full name - no Write your nicknames name!

Who is your counselor? 9th Grade - Mr. DeRocco Write your counselor’s 10th Grade - Ms. Caparotta name at the top of your CRF 11th Grade - Mr. DeRocco

2019 Program of English : Studies https://tinyurl.com/yd2mhjny Spanish : Coming soon - check the APS website. ● Use as a reference as you plan your high school sequence of courses ● Each course has a brief overview and description

Purpose & Vision Arlington Tech Capstone Experience is the culmination of an Arlington Tech student’s cross-curricular, project- based learning, and career development. Capstone Experience provides the student a gateway to apply and to advance his or her knowledge, technical expertise, and research skills learned in Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses within an authentic real world business and industry settings. 10th Grade 11th Grade Career 12th Grade 9th Grade Early Exploratio Capstone Foundations College/DE n

Dual Enrollment Courses - are marked with a DE. All dual enrollment classes will give you a full weight quality Dual Enrollment point. Taking theses courses is an opportunity to receive guaranteed college credit if you pass the course. Passing the NOVA Placement Exam - Required for all students interested in taking a Dual Enrolled class. 10th Ms. Magro graders will be taking the placement test in the spring. DE Considerations - ● Rising 10th graders must have a 3.25 GPA after the DMAGRO@NVCC.EDU end of 9th grade (including summer school, if you attend) to be eligible. ● There is a limit to the number of dual enrolled 18 Credits Maximum credits that you can take per semester, and different courses have different numbers of credits. per semester Therefore, you MAY NOT be able to take every dual enrolled class that you sign up for/are eligible for. ● Do Not overload your schedule with DE classes - keep in mind that if you want to drop one in the Fall, you may have to drop another due to scheduling.

Schedule ● 10th and 11th Graders need to fill all 8 periods. ● 12th Graders will select 4 core classes (English, Government, Math, & Science) with the option of adding a one or two credit CTE class. ***Teacher Recommendations required for all classes

Engineering I/II/III Cyber Security I/II * EMT * [ Must be 16 at time of enrollment] Physical Therapy/Sports Medicine Animal Science I/II Veterinarian Science I/II Forensic Science Pharmacy Tech* Data Design and Web Technology Computer Programming & Advanced Computer Programming Aviation* Intro to IT TV Production I/II/III ROTC I/II/III/IV Health Science/Medical Terminology Early Childhood Education* Culinary Arts I/II/III Barbering I/II/III and Cosmetology I/II/III (*After level 3) Auto Tech* & Auto Collision* Electricity I/II* Graphic Com/Digital Animation* *= Industry Certification Photo/Video I/II Teachers for Tomorrow I/II Entrepreneurship Robotics Electives

Teacher ● Performance not potential Recommendation ● Snapshot of where you are now , will be reviewed in June ● Teachers must sign/initial on your CRF cards!

Important ● Make sure to select two alternate elective Reminders choices (label A1 & A2) ● Guardian & student signatures required

● Schedules will be created and mailed home in August. ● Schedule changes based on Summer School in August/September. ● Changing elective classes may impact your core classes.

CRF Cards are ● Write yourself a reminder! You can hand it to your counselor, due to your or leave it in the box in the counselor by Counseling Office. February 1! ● If we don’t receive the form, we will have to choose your classes for you and you will not be able to make schedule changes!