21st Century Skills and Core Competencies
College Requirements
Vocabulary
Post-Secondary Paths
Career Clusters
100
Learning through and using technology to help you find, evaluate, and analyze information is helping you gain experience and proficiency in which Core Competency (21st Century Skill)?
What is "Information Technology"?
100
This is the average of all of your semester grades for all of your classes.
What is "GPA" (or Grade Point Average)?
100
This important document will contain a summary of your high school experience, including your classes, GPA, and potentially your class rank.
What is a transcript?
100
This post-secondary path offers a variety of different certifications and 2-year degrees.
What is a technical school?
100
This is the total number of identified career clusters.
What is 16?
200
This Core Competency is is all about working productively with others to reach a goal or find consensus.
What is "Collaboration"?
200
This number is calculated based on your GPA in comparison to your peers, and may or may not be provided by your high school.
What is class rank?
200
These courses are challenging, and cover college-level material. If you pass the big test at the end, you can earn college credit!
What is an Advanced Placement (AP) Course?
200
This is another name for a four-year college degree.
What is a bachelor's degree?
200
This career cluster includes those careers that involve planning, managing, and providing therapeutic services, diagnostic services, health informatics, support services, and biotechnology research and development.
What is the Health Science Cluster?
300
This core competency is about respecting diversity and fostering interdependence.
What is "Citizenship"?
300
This should be written by someone who knows you well and can comment on your strengths, work ethic, citizenship, and character.
What is a letter of recommendation?
300
Passing a year-long course earns you one of these.
What is a credit?
300
This is the name of the nine-part entrance exam that you must pass in order to enlist in any of the branches of the military.
What is the ASVAB?
300
Examples of careers within this cluster include protective services, legal services, and emergency and fire management.
What is the Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security Cluster?
400
This core competency is all about coming up with new ideas and creating new knowledge.
What is "Creativity and Innovation?
400
This personal statement is one of the most critical components of a strong college application.
What is an admission essay?
400
These two tests are taken in your junior year of high school, and your scores are used as part of the college admissions process.
What is the ACT and SAT?
400
These are the FIVE different branches of the military.
What are the army, navy, air force, coast guard, and marines?
400
This career cluster encompasses the management, marketing, and operations of restaurants and other food services, lodging, attractions, recreation events, and travel related services.
What is the Hospitality & Tourism Cluster?
500
ACP - Academic and Career Planning - is all about this core competency.
What is "College & Career Readiness"?
500
This is the number one component that colleges look for in their applicants, and shows how much a student has challenged himself over his four years of high school.
What is class rigor?
500
Your GPA might get an extra boost if you are successful in classes with this feature.
What is weighted credits?
500
This program combines on-the-job training with academic courses in order to provide job-specific certifications.
What is an apprenticeship?
500
Journalism and broadcasting fall into this career cluster.
What is the Arts, A/V Technology & Communications cluster?
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