Innovation is a crucial subject among higher education institutions where engaging techniques have been used to enhance the teaching and learning process. For this reason, this study sought to determine what and how teachers applied innovative techniques to enhance student learning, retention, and academic performance. It used a descriptive research design with questionnaires and descriptive statistics like frequency counting, percentages, and ranking to obtain and analyze the data. The findings showed the top three teaching strategies as using audio-visual aids, doing oral presentations, and peer mentoring while majority of the students felt at ease learning from teachers who used audio-visual tools, PowerPoint presentations, peer mentoring, and team teaching. It also revealed that students considered speaking and presenting in front of the class as less appealing. Issues encountered included passive students, the lack of students’ interest to explore, a loss of general interest, inadequate time for planning, a lot of paperwork, and scarcity of resources for teaching and learning. Finally, results identified that innovative techniques should foster a positive attitude toward learning, teach students habits for success, provide creativity, encourage independent learning and collaborative learning, develop language convergence, and expand the source of information. Behavioral problems could exist as difficulties encountered on the implementation of teaching methods, but these could be remedied by improving these methods and instilling values among the students.

Keywords: Academic Performance, Innovative Teaching, Learning Enhancement, Maritime, Instructors, Retention.

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