Designing Curriculum for Your School

Designing curriculum for your school with the college-bound student in mind

Concurrent Enrollment can help high school students to prepare for college by helping them to transition to college level expectations, and by giving them advanced standing when they start college. Depending on the number of credits they earn, and the combination of them, this advanced standing can benefit the student by either freeing up their freshman year schedule, or even by eliminating a semester of college level work.

When you are planning your master schedule, you may want to keep your Concurrent Enrollment options in mind. We advise schools to focus mainly on offering 100 level courses that will apply to a student's college curriculum regardless of their major. Nearly all college majors require ENGL 101 and 102. Students are also expected to have some liberal arts electives - such as a history course, psychology, or sociology.

Most students, even in liberal arts programs, will be required to have some math and natural sciences - like college level Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus, Chemistry, Physics, or Biology. Many students will also be required to take a Foreign Language. We have high schools that are offering most of the courses listed. A motivated and hard working student in one of these schools could graduate with a TC3 transcript, backed by the State University of New York system, which shows they have already earned 36 college credits. Hard to believe? Look at this Student Graduation Plan to see how it could work.