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TPS Dual Credit – Affordable Credits, Flexible Options!
Featured Course(s): College (Dual Credit) Courses
TPS offers college dual credit courses in a unique way that is advantageous for students. Our dual credit courses do not require college enrollment until later in the course, and then it is optional whether to enroll in the college course and pay for the college credits. A student may take the course as high school credit or dual credit, and may wait to decide until later in the course.
TPS offers 15+ dual credit courses (listed below), and of course we want you to consider them. But more important, we want you to be well-informed to make the most of dual credit opportunities, whether from TPS or elsewhere. Before we give you the unique advantages of our dual credit courses, we want you to consider questions like:
What academic preparation and transcript-building factors should you consider in choosing dual credit courses?
What credit transfer questions should you ask your potential colleges before choosing dual credit courses in high school?
Where do we get our information? TPS has gathered feedback over many years from many former students who entered college with one or more dual credit courses (community college, online courses directly from colleges, and TPS College dual credit). Their “lessons learned” and advice for upcoming students are summarized in this article for your benefit. If your high school student is eligible for dual credit college courses, please consider the advice from students who come before you, and then please consider TPS dual credit courses.
Learn more about college dual credit courses in high school…
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The live support bubble also provides a convenient email option after hours. For families enrolling in five or more courses, you may also request a phone meeting for help with course selection.TPS Graduation 2020 goes virtual! Though we had to cancel our summer camp and graduation for 2020, we are pleased to announce that TPS Graduation 2020 is going virtual! Hopefully this change of venue means that even more TPS graduates can participate, and even more friends and families can join in the celebration. Go here for more details…
Be a High Scholar! Earn 12 university credits and 6 high school credits in the two-year “great books” Belhaven High Scholars humanities program for students grades 10-12.
Boost your summer! We offer a full range of summer math and writing courses to help you build up, catch up or get ready for 2020-21.
2020-21 new (or redesigned) courses. The list is long — nearly 60 new or redesigned courses! Grab a cup of your favorite drink and settle in to peruse our great new courses. Direct links to the catalog details are provided for your convenience. Go here for more details…
English 3 (grade 9) update to the update. Since we we are providing only one English 3 Lit Analysis and Comp course for 2020-21, we removed the “theme” and updated the literature and film selections to serve a wider audience. Starting 2021-22 we plan to offer multiple versions of the course with different literature and film selections, just as we are doing for other English Lit and Comp courses. If you have a rising grade 9 student, please review the updated list of books and films for English 3 Lit Analysis and Comp.
2020-21 updates to prerequisites. We are simplifying the prerequisites to most of our high school courses, making it easier to get approval coming from both inside and outside TPS. Go here for more details…
2020-21 updates to obtaining major textbooks for TPS courses. “If you want something done right, do it yourself.” We decided to bypass the middleman resellers and make it much easier and cheaper for our students to obtain their major textbooks. Go here for more details…
2020-21 updates to TPS English. We’re changing our approach to grade 9 English by treating it as a fresh start rather than a continuation of middle school English. We also now have a dedicated writing course in every grade level from grade 5 to AP/college. Go here for more details…
2020-21 updates to TPS middle school science. We’re making our middle school science program more coherent and accessible as two core courses plus two optional courses. Go here for more details…
2020-21 updates to TPS high school biological sciences. We felt that all of our biological science courses (Biology, Honors Bio, Anatomy, AP Bio) could do better with labs that make the courses more interesting and educational, so we’re building better courses. Go here for more details…
2020-21 updates to TPS German. TPS has a top-notch German program that can now take you all the way to AP German (new course for 2020-21). We also now have two options — standard and honors — for German 1 and 2. Go here for more details…
2020-21 updates to TPS Physics. We’re putting the excitement of discovery back in Physics. Go here for more details…
2020-21 updates to TPS AP courses. We’re taking some of our high-scoring AP courses from two days per week to one day per week of live instruction, to make them easier to schedule for busy upper HS students. We are making this change for 2020-21 primarily with AP history and government courses (plus a few others). Go here for more details…
2020-21 Academic Calendar The academic calendar for 2020-21 is posted, including enrollment opening dates. Starting 2021, Winter Break is merged with Spring Break to become a two-week Spring/Easter Break.
Avoid the wait(lists). If you are enrolling in five or more full-year courses, you may request assistance from an academic scheduling coordinator who will help you with scheduling then continue with you until you are approved in the best seats we can offer you.
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