A phenomenological study to discover what it means to be a competent and successful teacher in the 21st century

Panetta, Michael (2024) A phenomenological study to discover what it means to be a competent and successful teacher in the 21st century. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to discover the necessary skills, knowledge and aptitudes needed to be a competent and successful classroom teacher in the 21st century, in an effort to provide curriculum content to students as well as inspire them to be the best possible version of themselves. At this stage of the research, a 21st century teacher will generally be defined as those educators that have successfully integrated all of the most valuable and essential aspects of the modern era into their pedagogical practices, including both their domain content as well as its practical applications. This report will employ a Phenomenological methodology with a criterion-based purposive sampling of students and teachers currently in the Ontario Education system, and I anticipate that the findings from these interviews will assist in the construction of a composite that will serve as a reasonable method to identify those qualities that are necessary for a teacher to be successful in a modern classroom.

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