Academic Planning
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2024-2025 AAHS Course Description Book
What Path to Choose for Goals after High School?
Choosing the right path after graduation means selecting employment, a training program, or a college that reflects the type of learning, environment, and opportunity you are pursuing.
What are career pathways?
Each pathway is a broad grouping of careers with similar characteristics and whose employment requirements call for many common interests, strengths, and competencies. A chosen pathway focuses a student’s elective courses toward preparing for a specific goal area.
Why should I choose a career pathway?
- To help focus on a career area that matches interests in high school
- To help set goals and discover classes necessary to achieve those goals
- To create career awareness and encourage planning for post-secondary education
and opportunities - To provide knowledge that relates your high school education to the world after
graduation
How do I choose a career pathway?
Use the Career Exploration/Entering the Workforce resources below to understand your interests and what careers are connected to those interests. Also, talk to your school counselor, parents, and teachers to assist in choosing.
Will there be any change in my major academic studies?
No, you will still follow the graduation requirements for Altoona Area School District.
Career Pathway Options
Arts & Communications
This pathway is designed to cultivate students’ awareness, interpretation, application, and production of visual, verbal, and written work.
Business & Technology
This pathway is designed to prepare students for careers in business, finance, and information systems.
Engineering & Industrial
This pathway is designed to cultivate students’ interests, awareness, and application to areas related to technologies necessary to design, develop, install, or maintain physical systems.
HUMAN SERVICES
This pathway is designed to cultivate students’ interests, skills, and experiences for employment in careers related to family and human needs.
SCIENCE & HEALTH
This pathway is designed to cultivate students’ interests in the life, physical and behavioral sciences, in addition to the planning, managing, and providing of therapeutic services, diagnostic services, health information, and biochemistry research development.
Career Assessments
- MAPP Career Assessment
- Career assessments and courseware
- Career research and assessments
- Career exploration and different career requirements
Career Research
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Satistics Occupational Outlook Handbook
- College Board Career Exploration and Career Quiz
- U.S. Department of Labor Career Onestop
- Businesses and Schools Investing in Cooperative Solutions (BASICS)
Career Searching
Post Secondary Education
Find Trade Schools
College Admission Test Information
College Planning
Playing College Sports
NCAA Eligibility
In order to compete at an NCAA Division I or Division II school, you need to meet eligibility requirements certified by the NCAA Eligibility Center. Please use the links below to begin this process.
- Create a new account or log into an existing NCAA account
- NCAA Registration Checklist
- Frequently asked questions about becoming an NCAA student-athlete
Elegibility Requirements
Military Planning
- ASVAB Practice Test
- Check with your guidance counselor to see when the school will be hosting ASVAB testing. This exam is also an excellent resource for any student, even if students are not planning to go into the military.
- Military Academics
- Air Force
- Army
- Coast Guard
- Marines
- Navy