Fort Dodge Senior High FourYear Planning Manual

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Fort Dodge Senior HighFour-Year Planning Manual

• Purpose
• To help students map their high school class
  choices based on their desired career pathway.
• (Understand that this map of classes will
  change as they progress through high school)

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Beginning

• Read the inside cover of the planning manual
  (letter from the high school counselors)
• College Admission Tests (page 5)
• Understanding which tests to take and when to
  take them.

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Process

• Choosing a career (page 7)
• Write down my current (ninth grade) career choice
• (What I want to do for a job during my adult
  life)
• Career Pathways
• What are they (page 9)
• Choose a career pathway based on my current
  career choice (page 10)

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Process (continued)

• Find the corresponding Careers in your pathway
  page in the booklet
• Examples (If your chosen pathway is Arts and
  Communications, you would go to page 15. If your
  chosen pathway is Health Sciences, you would go
  to page 43)
• Deciding How much college
• Generally speaking
• Entry level and Technical level will require none
  or 2 years of college.
• Professional level will require 4 years or more
  of college.

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Creating the Four-year plan

• From the Careers in your Path page, use the
  schedules to create your four-year plan
• Identify which four-year plan to use
• Two years of college or less will follow the CC
  four-year plan.
• Four or more years of college will follow the
  Univ. four year plan.
• Fill in all of the required courses for all four
  years.
• Use the Course Catalog to choose elective classes
  to complete the course schedule.