Teaching and Learning Practices and Student Engagement in one Dental Institution

This study aims to assess the teaching and learning practices and student engagement in one dental institution, identifying teaching and learning practices of the clinical instructors with respect to learning environment, reflective practices, feedback and modelling, determining the clinicians’ engagement. It tested the relationship between the teaching and learning practices and student engagement and proposed an action plan based on the results. Respondents were 100 Dentistry students in Lyceum of the Philippines University in Batangas City. Using descriptive method, the study determined the teaching and learning practices of clinical instructors and the dental clinicians’ engagement. Based on the results, it was concluded that: teaching and learning practices of the clinical instructors as to the learning environment, reflective practice, feedback, patient management and modeling were positively assessed. Dental clinicians’ level of engagement on affective liking for learning, in school, behavioral as to effort and persistence and extracurricular and cognitive were high. The better the teaching and learning practices of clinical instructors with respect to learning environment, the more that the students are engaged on affective liking in school as well as extracurricular. The better the teaching and learning practices of clinical instructors with respect to patient management, the more that the students are engaged on affective in liking for learning. The better the teaching and learning practices of clinical instructors with respect to modelling, the more that the students are engaged cognitively.

Keywords – teaching, learning practices, student engagement, dental institution.