Welcome

TechEd Monterey Bay is a team of educators that coordinates tech prep in high schools/ROP programs, businesses, and Monterey Peninsula College in an effort to prepare high school students for college and careers. Tech Prep bridges the gap from high school to community college and beyond with classes and activities that explore careers, link educational and career pathway planning, and assists students to go successfully from high school to college.

Tech Prep supports activities such as job shadowing, career fairs, professional development for teachers, and articulation of programs and courses between the high schools and Monterey Peninsula College.

Tech Prep Defined

The term 'tech-prep program' means a program of study that:

  • Combines at least two years of secondary education (as determined under State law) and two years of post-secondary education in a non-duplicative sequential course of study
  • Strengthens the applied academic component of vocational and technical education through the integration of academic, and vocational and technical instruction
  • Provides technical preparation in an area such as engineering technology, applied science, a mechanical, industrial or practical art or trade, agriculture, a health occupation, business, or applied economics
  • Builds student competence in mathematics, science, and communications (including through applied academics) in a coherent sequence of courses
  • Leads to an associates degree or a certificate in a specific career field, and to high skill, high wage employment, or further education

Tech Prep Partners

History

  • Tech Prep is national educational reform that began in 1990 through the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act, a federally funded program.
  • Tech Prep was enacted in order to address the needs of high school students in the academic middle.
  • Tech Prep was designed as a seamless grade 11 through associate degree program, with the option of beginning a technical career or continuing on to a bachelor's degree.
  • Tech Prep addresses the need for a high tech workforce in the 21st century.
  • Tech Prep was designed to address the needs of students who learn best through challenging hand-on activities rather than lecture bound coursework.