Career Connections

“职业联系计划”是一个为期三年的项目，旨在提高弱势群体和少数民族学生对需要数学和科学的领域的技术性职业的认识。主要内容包括咨询、教师发展、学术辅导、职业意识项目、家长/监护人的参与，以及由教师、辅导员和来自私营部门合作伙伴的科学家/数学家/工程师组成的团队。该项目将于1989年开始，300名九年级学生被分配到志愿者教师小组，志愿者教师将与参与的学生小组一起安排数学和科学课程。指派给这些学生的高中辅导员也将成为团队的参与者。辅助专业人员和研究生将在学校项目和家长之间形成联系。私人伙伴将提供各种类型的职业意识活动，这些活动来自个人可能来自的特定行业。威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校将对参赛队员进行监督和培训。密尔沃基的南区高中位于西班牙裔社区中心，少数族裔学生人数众多，四年来辍学率高达50%。合作伙伴的成本分担将占国家科学基金会资金的103%。

The "Career Connections Program" is a three year project designed to increase the awareness of technically based careers in fields requiring mathematics and science among disadvantaged and minority students. The primary components are counseling, faculty development, academic tutoring, career awareness programs, parent/guardian involvement, with teams of teachers, counselors, and scientist/mathematicians/engineers from the private sector partners. The program will begin in 1989 with 300 ninth grade students assigned to teams of volunteer teachers who will be scheduled to blocks of time for math and science with groups of participant students. The high school counselors assigned to these same students will also be participants in the team. Paraprofessionals, and graduate students will form a link between the school program and the parent(s). Private partners will provide various types of career awareness activities growing out of the particular industry from which individuals may come. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will provide supervision and training of members of the teams. South Division High School in Milwaukee is located in the midst of the Hispanic community and has a broad representation of minorities and a drop-out rate of 50% over four years. Cost sharing of the partners will total 103% of the National Science Foundation funding.