Why Choice Is Important Essay

Why Is This Important? Relevance to the Career of a Preservice Teacher When I have my own classroom, it will be so important for me to know about all of my students. This includes knowing both their exceptionalities and them as people. The information from the two articles summarized above will help me know my students’ exceptionalities better, thus improving my ability to teach them and also to relate to them. Something I learned from the first article that is very important is how choice plays into the life of a 2e student. Student choice is generally promoted for all students, within reason, obviously. Choice is even more important for students with two exceptionalities, especially when it comes to assessment of learning. Twice-exceptional students typically have a passion for learning, learning above …show more content…
Not only do they have to cope with having a learning disability, but they have to cope with the effects of being gifted as well. This combination makes for an interesting school experience. Students who are twice-exceptional often are not given the services they require to learn to their potential, including both accommodations and opportunities to go deeper in their learning (Willard-Holt et al., 2013). These same students may not have the same level of support at home, due to how their exceptionalities interact with each other and how parent expectations change as a result. The lower level of support can then turn into lower self-concept (Barber & Mueller, 2011). Because students who are twice-exceptional are often overlooked, it is important for me as a preservice teacher to be able to fill that gap in my future classroom and school (Barber & Mueller, 2011; Willard-Holt et al., 2013). In sum, twice-exceptional students are similar to many other students: they have distinct needs, and it is our job as teachers to provide for those needs as best as we can. Our students deserve no