Silicon Valley Consortium for Mathematics and Science Teachers (SVCMST)

硅谷数学和科学教学联盟（SVCMST）正在规划一个项目，以帮助增加美国技术最重要的地理区域之一，加州硅谷的数学和科学教师队伍。最终目标是招聘和准备新的教师，他们将被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是一个合作项目，旨在汇集来自加州大学、圣克鲁斯教育、数学和物理系、山麓社区学院和德安扎社区学院的教职员工和管理人员（都在硅谷）、富兰克林麦金利学区、东区联合高中学区（SV/圣何塞两个受影响较大的地区），科技行业代表（硅谷领导小组），以及来自硅谷教育基金会的教育专家，共同努力，合作解决向硅谷受影响最严重的学区提供STEM教师的紧迫问题。这项规划补助金的重点是匹配需求（那些谁是科学和数学专家，但失业和服务不足的地区，需要干教师）在一个创造性的，具有成本效益和及时的方式。SVCMST正在确定创造协同效应的最佳方法，创造未来成本分摊的可能性，学习如何作为一个有凝聚力的单位工作。努力的重点是培养一个新的中学科学和数学教师类别，方法是：（1）重新评估最近因经济衰退而失业的STEM专业人员的资格（2）招聘和培养新教师，为文化、语言和经济日益多样化的学生群体教授数学和科学（3）扩大关于教师知识和技能发展的知识基础，为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，以衡量成功。（文化和语言多样性学生的成绩、就业和大学安置滞后）和“职业差距”（对数学和科学教师的需求日益增加，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”计划中。

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.