Silicon Valley Consortium for Mathematics and Science Teachers (SVCMST)

硅谷数学和科学教师联盟 (SVCMST)

• 批准号: 0934748
• 负责人: Doris Ash
• 金额: $ 7.48万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Cruz
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0934748&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Silicon; Valley; Consortium; Mathematics; Science

The Silicon Valley Consortium for Mathematics and Science Teaching (SVCMST) is engaged in planning a project to help increase the teacher workforce in mathematics and science in one of the most technologically vital geographic areas in America, Silicon Valley, California. The ultimate goal is to recruit and prepare new teachers who will be hired in hard to staff, culturally and linguistically diverse middle and high schools in Silicon Valley school districts. SVCMST is a collaboration designed to bring together faculty, staff and administrators from the University of California, Santa Cruz education, mathematics, and physics departments, Foothill and De Anza Community Colleges (both in Silicon Valley), Franklin McKinley School District, East Side Union High School District (both highly impacted districts in SV/San Jose), representatives from the science and technology based industry (Silicon Valley Leadership Group), as well as education experts from the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, to work collectively and collaboratively on the pressing issue of providing STEM teachers to the most highly impacted school districts in Silicon Valley. This planning grant focuses on matching needs (those who are expert in science and mathematics, but jobless and underserved districts that need STEM teachers) in a creative, cost effective and timely way. The SVCMST is identifying best ways to create synergies, create future cost share possibilities, learning how to work as a cohesive unit. Efforts focus on preparing a new category of secondary science and mathematics teachers by:(1) Re-qualifying STEM professionals recently unemployed due to the recession(2) Recruiting and preparing new teachers to teach mathematics and science to the increasingly culturally, linguistically and economically diverse student population(3) Expanding the knowledge base on the development of teacher knowledge and skill in teaching science and mathematics to diverse student populations (4) Researching and designing new evaluation tools for measuring success.The goal is to help meet both an "achievement gap" (lagging scores, jobs and college placements for culturally and linguistically diverse students) and an "occupation gap" (increasing need for math and science teachers, and the presence of recently unemployed Silicon Valley science and math specialists) in one "re-qualifying" program.

硅谷数学与科学教学联盟(SVCMST)致力于规划一个项目，以帮助在美国技术最重要的地理区域之一--加利福尼亚州硅谷--增加数学和科学教师队伍。最终目标是招聘和准备新教师，这些教师将在硅谷学区难以招聘的、文化和语言多样化的初中和高中聘用。SVCMST是一个旨在将来自加州大学圣克鲁斯分校教育、数学和物理系、Foothill和De Anza社区学院(均位于硅谷)、Franklin McKinley学区、East Side Union高中学区(均为西弗吉尼亚/圣何塞受影响最大的学区)的教职员工和管理人员、以科学和技术为基础的行业(硅谷领导小组)的代表以及硅谷教育基金会的教育专家聚集在一起，共同合作解决向硅谷受影响最大的学区提供STEM教师这一紧迫问题。这项计划拨款侧重于以创造性、成本效益和及时的方式满足需求(那些科学和数学方面的专家，但需要STEM教师的失业和服务不足的地区)。SVCMST正在确定创造协同效应、创造未来成本分担可能性的最佳方式，并学习如何作为一个有凝聚力的单位工作。努力的重点是准备一个新的中学科学和数学教师类别：(1)重新获得最近因经济衰退而失业的STEM专业人员的资格(2)招聘和准备新教师，向日益多样化的文化、语言和经济多元化的学生群体教授数学和科学(3)扩大教师知识和技能发展的知识库，向不同的学生群体教授科学和数学(4)研究和设计新的评估工具来衡量成功。目标是帮助弥补“成绩差距”(成绩落后，就业和大学安置的文化和语言不同的学生)和“职业差距”(对数学和科学教师的需求不断增加，以及最近失业的硅谷科学和数学专家的存在)在一个“重新资格”计划。