Active teaching-learning methods for graduation in Dentistry and contribution of monitoring - an experience report

Abstract

In the health field, different ways of teaching-learning and curricular organization are being adopted in the perspective to integrating theory with practice and teaching with the service, and to develop the reflective capacity about real problems, as well as planning creative and original actions that are capable to change the social reality. In the curricular component Supervised Internship II, at the State University of Paraíba - Dentistry Course, the teachers have been using the active methodologies, such as the questioning, which is the use of triggers of the teaching-learning process to establish the debate. As a way of assessing learning, a reflective critical portfolio is used with photographic records, with the positive and negative impressions of the experience during the supervised internship. In addition, the internet is used as a technology of information and communication, in which the component has a group on social network, Facebook, which is used for communication between teachers, students and monitors for mailing articles, documentaries and issues related to classes. The monitoring of the Supervised Internship has contributed to the creation of a critical-reflective student profile and stimulated the monitors’ skills for teaching. Thus, the use of active teaching-learning methodologies has aroused the interest of the student to think, to question, to learn and to take their role as future transformer of the social reality, which has contributed greatly to the teaching practice innovation and encouraged, in monitoring, the development of the skills of the teaching profile required nowadays.