My ideal teacher: the Gen Z’s choice

This study explored the Gen Z’s ideal teacher. The research employed an explanatory sequential mixed method. The intent of the transformative mixed methods design, to seek reality from their preferred teaching styles, on how do they perceived an ideal teacher, and on how can teachers meet their expectations. The findings revealed that the most preferred teaching styles and most effective way in teaching these students is experiential learning. In addition, as perceived by the Gen Z students, an ideal teacher should have positive values and they must be emotionally supportive and technologically literate. Furthermore, it was unveiled that a teacher must imposes skill enhancement, be conscious of today’s trend, adapt to the digital revolution and have an awareness of individual differences and needs to meet the Gen Z expectations. This also provides information and serves as a guide on how teachers meet the Gen Z expectations based on the overall data gathered from the respondents. Through this, an instructional input was crafted containing the different teaching styles that the student prefers and the different activities that can help teachers accommodate the said teaching styles.