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Diversity
Understanding the Diversity of Students
In this reading, Garcia talks of how much diversity is affecting education. The issue would seem to be with the students, but more often it is with the teachers. This is largely because most teachers in this country are white and speak English as their only language. In contrast to this, their students are from many different nationalities and backgrounds. They also have different cultural ideas and many speak English as a second language, and often not very well. There are more and more immigrants coming into this country today, and so there are many more children that must be taught. These children are getting an education, but there is some concern over whether they are really getting the high quality of education that they want and need because of language and cultural boundaries that still exist in many schools between teachers and students.
This is a two-fold problem. Many of these children who need an education have come...
Their parents also seek this, but they are having great difficulty finding it. Years ago, immigrants had to start out in low-paying and largely unskilled jobs, but their chance for advancement was good and they quite often were able to work their way up and learn valuable job and people skills as they progressed in their employment. Now, many immigrants still start out in low-paying and unskilled jobs, but that is where they stay. Without a good education, their children are going to find that they have this same difficulty.
Because immigrant families tend to gather in certain areas of the country in large groups, there is often a shortage of properly trained teachers in areas that need them the most. All available data would indicate that the amount of immigrants is only going to grow larger as time moves on. Since there are few qualified teachers and such a strong focus on learning English rather than everything that their peers…
251). This would show how well they observed, organized their thoughts and read (or were read to). "Overall, children from both middle-class and economically disadvantaged homes produced reasonably long narratives, but children from disorganized families did not.... Follow-up... showed that the first two groups did not differ from each other" (Peterson, p. 258). All the children were Caucasian, from English or Irish ethnic backgrounds, whose families had been in
If the right employee is chosen then the knowledge that they gain while abroad can be a valuable asset when they return home. They develop an intimate relationship with a different market than the parent company. This knowledge can help the parent company expand to meet the needs of a more diverse group of clients. There have not been many studies in this area at all. This study has
Diversity Training The school aims to recruit students that will balance the spectrum of diversity. Before this can be accomplished however, existing and future employees of the university will need to be prepared. "Diversity is about encouraging and enabling all employees to draw on their talents, skills, and experience for the benefit of the business." (Bruno, 2004) Schools that are diversity sensitive will more often be prepared for the competitive recruitment
Diversity Using Power Point: Understanding Diversity answer the below questions How could prejudice affect a person's ability to learn and work? Prejudice could affect the person's self-esteem and self-confidence. Teachers and peers might treat the student differently than they would without the prejudice, even if the prejudice is "positive," such as prejudice toward Asian students in a math class. Prejudice might impede a person's ability to learn and work, because it impacts the
When school leadership values diversity and demonstrates the value of diversity the school is more likely to be characterized by diversity in the classroom. IV. Modeling Respect for Diversity Harris (2006) states in the work entitled: "BRAVO Principals" published by Education World that school principals "model respect for diversity when they engage their faculties in addressing issues of identity so that children have successful role models that represent all ethnic groups.
Diversity and Leadership Roles Diversity typically plays a major role in leadership and administrative issues in a school setting. Many schools have a widely diverse student body, faculty, and administration, and diversity issues involving gender, ethnicity, religious affiliations, and even basic social perspectives occur on a daily basis (Howard, 2007). As a grade school principal I am often charged with helping different interest groups such as parents, students and teachers navigate