Educators should understand themselves and why we do things the way we do. Educators need to “think about our own values, beliefs and attitudes related to diversity and differences and acknowledge and address any bias that we may hold”(Educator’s Guide, 2015 pg22). Our values, beliefs, and attitudes may affect the way we respond to discrimination. These responses have different effects on our relationship and on children’s development. For example one response to discrimination is to ignore the discriminative act or prejudice. Children do not learn to think about or deal with issues and an opportunities for learning are lost when we ignore when a discriminative act occurs. An educator’s personal values can also be passed on to the children
