MANAGEMEN AND DIVERSITY IN THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT

1. Defenition of Diversity in Education

Diversity refers to the range of identities that exist in a group of people. Common identity
categories referenced when discussing diversity include race, class, gender, religion and
sexual orientation. Diversity in education represents a broad range of ideas and initiatives to
create learning environments that are safe, inclusive and equitable for as many identities as
possible. Recognizing, fostering and developing sensitivity to the needs of people in various
identity categories are primary aims of educational diversity.

Today's diversity initiatives in education encompass an even wider range of categories

and practices. Initially, affirmative action and equal opportunity policies recognized race,
religion, gender, color, ethnicity and national origin. Since the 1980s, concerns have
expanded to include such categories as ability, sexual orientation and learning styles.
Educational practice has gone beyond providing access to minority groups. Now, many
educators are discussing ways to revise teaching strategies so methods are more inclusive.
Diversity practices are also responding to new developments in education, such as research
about students with learning challenges. As an example, the movement toward differentiated
instructional strategies aims to cater to the diversity of learning styles in the classroom.

2. Implementing diversity in education

Promoting diversity in schools is more than just encouraging students of different

backgrounds to attend certain schools. It requires administrators to think critically about the
ways diversity impacts education. A school administration degree readies graduates for
promoting and teaching diversity as a means of accepting it. Educators and administrative
leaders can help students better understand that while everyone is different, in the most
fundamental ways, everyone is the same and should be treated with respect. This will go far
in helping students accept diversity and promote it in their daily lives.

3. Advantages of Diversity in The School Inveronment

When you think about diversity, what springs to mind? The first things that people
usually think of are factors such as age, gender, race, cultural background, etc., but there is
far more to creating a diverse workplace than hiring people who fit into different age brackets
or creating the perfect male to female ratio.

Though we may share things in common with other individuals, at the end of the day,
everyone is their own person and can bring different things to the table, which is why
diversity is so important among a team. By hiring people with different personalities and at
varied stages of their career, it can help to foster creativity and offer a range of perspectives
and ideas. Here are a few of the top benefits or diversity in the workplace (school).

A. Talents, skills and experiences

Individuals from diverse backgrounds can offer a choice of different talents, skills, and
experiences, which might benefit the organization and their work performance. Although
some skill crossings can be useful in terms of helping one another, it is important to recruit
people with appropriate skills to suit each role in the school environment. Various skills
and experiences between teams also mean that school people can learn from each other to
get new knowledge and complement each other.

B. It creates innovation

By working with people with different backgrounds, experiences and work styles,
creative concepts can be born from reflecting ideas from each other and offering feedback
and suggestions. If one person might be great at generating interesting ideas, out of the box,
other people might have the experience needed to implement them, so it's important to play
in the strengths of each individual and collaborate with others on the team.

C. Language skills can open doors for a business

Language barriers and cultural differences can often be a barrier for schools that want to
coordinate this diversity. But by hiring employees who speak different languages and
understand different cultures, it can allow schools to work broadly and interact with a wider
range. Representing a number of cultures in the school environment. You can also help
make it easier to connect with each other.

D. It grows your talent pool

Schools that embrace diversity will attract more potential human resources (employees
and students), because it will be seen as a more progressive institution and will appeal to
individuals from all walks of life. Of course, because the number of new workers and
students is increasing, the opportunity to find the best potential also increases. It can also
help with employee retention, because people want to work in an environment that accepts
all backgrounds and promotes equality.

E. Improves institution performance

Schools are more likely to feel comfortable and happy in an environment where
inclusiveness is a priority. Equality in schools is important to encourage employees and
students from all backgrounds to feel confident in their abilities and achieve the best. The
higher the team spirit, the more productive employees and students.

4. An Awareness Of The Challanges Facing Manager (head-master) Diverse

Workface

Cultural flexibility is a skill that refers to cultural awareness and sensitivity, where a
manager is required to be able to appreciate the value of the diversity of cultures within his
organization. The principal as a manager at the school is very likely to be confronted with
school residents, with diverse cultural backgrounds, both teachers, administrative staff and
students. Therefore, the principal is required to appreciate the diversity of this culture.

Manager (head master) have the challenge of finding ways in which a teacher or
employee can work with different teachers or employees. That is when it is needed diversity
skills training, a special training to educate teachers or employees on the importance of
diversity and teach them the skills to work in diverse environments, to have a positive impact
on diversity awareness among students and the school environment.

Bias is a term that describes a tendency or preference for a particular perspective or

ideology. This is generally seen as a "one-sided" perspective. Our personal bias causes us to
have preconceived opinions about people or things. This prejudice opinion can make all kinds
of inaccurate decisions and attitudes. Let's see how our personal biases affect the way we see
and respond to diversity so that this is one of the challenges that must be considered in
applying the diversity system in the school environment.

5. An Understanding of The Strategies for Promotion Diversity in the school

environment

Each effective school factor has an important role in school improvement. Each factor is
related to each other. Every effective school point is part of diversity in the school
environment. Diversity in schools can influence the thoughts, feelings and actions of school
people. Diversity is the key to success in promoting staff development and student learning.

Diversity in schools includes values, symbols, beliefs, and sharing the meaning of
parents, students, teachers, and others as a society and regulates what is valuable to the group
and how members should think, feel, and behave. The diversity of schools means how to
study events and interactions to be meaningful. School principals, teachers, and staff should
understand diversity in the school environment, and must be able to take advantage of
diversity to be an advantage of the school itself.

Managing diversity at the school premises effectively requires more than just
understanding and adhering to policies related to diversity issues. schools that are successful
in managing diversity use additional initiatives and programs. We will see four of them
including top management commitment, mentoring, diversity skills training, and employee
resource groups and potential students.

6. The Role of Manager Promoting Diversity

The role of principals, teachers, and staff in promoting diversity in schools as a form of
superiority of the school itself, and the diversity of schools being the most important things
must be displayed so that people are interested in sending their children to school. From the
school starting from the principal, the teacher and staff provide support and assistance to
students or school residents who want to develop all their potential. For example, all students
who have the potential in an academic or non-academic field are very concerned to be able to
develop their potential well, because many occur in some schools that only pay attention to
one academic or non-academic field that they see as very prominent, a case like this one
example of a school that has not been able to create diversity in its environment, a school that
is able to create diversity in its environment namely schools that can see that diversity itself is
a high selling point in terms of promoting the institution to the community. Indeed, schools
should not only be interpreted as rigid educational institutions that consist of rules, school
management, educators, and students. As part of the community structure, schools need to
participate in presenting diverse social realities through various activities in schools in an
effort to avoid social conflict in the community. So diversity is the most important thing to
pay attention to a school or the advantages possessed by the school itself in order to be able to
attract the interest of the community.