Center for Teaching and Learning

Programs

Monday: January 26, 2206, 12:40-1:30, Mahan 220

“Coaching the Classroom,” Coach Jen Lara, Director of Coaching, Stockdale Center This interactive workshop will equip participants with foundational coaching skills to better support midshipmen and enhance classroom instruction.

No sign up needed~~~Look for more Pop Up Mondays throughout the Spring semester

James Lang’s Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It
Explore how we can use the growing research on how learning works to teach more effectively. Participants are not expected to attend every session.

Books are now available in Mahan 220
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Books will be provided to all who sign up.

Join other USNA faculty and staff interested in engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL). Come learn more about the principles behind SoTL and the relationships between reflective teaching, SoTL, and education research. Engage in sharing the state-of-the-art in the education of future Navy and Marine Corps junior officers across a variety of disciplines. Potentially collaborate with colleagues to prepare peer-reviewed publications for education journals. Please feel free to contact CDR Angel Rodriguez (arodrigu@usna.edu) and/or Prof. Shirley Lin (lin@usna.edu) with any questions.

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Bring your knitting (or learn to knit), crocheting, quilting, sketching, a game to share, or any other craft project. Or join us for the fellowship.

By Appointment Only. Contact Dr. Julie Zhu (zhu@usna.edu) to schedule one-on-one help with technology for your classes.

Meet Dr. Zhu to get help with using a variety of Educational Technology topics including but not limited to Blackboard, Google Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, the Panopto Lecture Capture System, Respondus LockDown Browser, etc.

MASTER INSTRUCTOR: An officer with a relevant Master's degree and four or more semesters of superior classroom performance at the Naval Academy who has completed USNA’s Center for Teaching and Learning’s Master Instructor Program. Consideration for awarding this academic rank will be based on the recommendation of the respective department.
Completing this program grants officers the title of Master Instructor. For details about the program see: ACADEMIC DEAN AND PROVOST INSTRUCTION 1520.2C Academic Titles for Military Faculty.
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Faculty members spend a day shadowing a MIDN in order to gain a better understanding of what
the day-to-day life looks like for a Midshipmen. We will pair you up with a 3/C or 2/C who you
will shadow throughout their entire day. Date is by arrangement.
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The most popular program offered!

Formative Analysis of Classroom Teaching (FACT)
To assist faculty members with their own reflective teaching by providing them with anonymous mid-semester feedback from their students. Request mid-semester feedback on one of your classes—strictly confidential: no records kept or reports made. Watch your email for more details and a call for requests. Due to high demand, we can only offer 1 FACT per instructor.
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This workshop helps participants prepare for promotion and tenure, including how to create a
teaching portfolio.
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