Professional Transition Plan

Professional Transition Plan (PTP) is still a graduation requirement for the junior English class. The PTP is a professional portfolio that has gotten students to start thinking about post-graduation plans including college, the classes and tests (SATs) they need to take in high school to get into their college of choice, financial aide, and so on.

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In addition to novel and vocabulary study, students were prepared for life after high school. First of all, students were taught the steps of writing a formal essay through notes and examples. They put this information into practice several times by writing a formal typed essay each term. I believe this assisted them with the HSA test as well as prepared them for college or post-high school life. Not only do I believe that formal essay writing prepared these students for life after high school, but teaching the “Professional Transition Plan” (PTP) and having students create a PTP portfolio to use on a mock interview also helped prepare them think about post-high school plans.

This PTP portfolio consisted of a cover page, a cover letter, a resume, a job application, a W-4, and copies of their Hawaii ID and Social Security Card. Later these students used this portfolio during a mock interview with me.

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