Center for Teaching and Learning

Programs

Formative Analysis of Classroom Teaching (FACT) ~~ SEP 21 to OCT 30, 2026 & FEB 16 to APR 2, 2027, Dr. Shirley Lin

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.

**Foundations of Teaching: Small Teaching (Part II: Understanding), Wednesday 7, 14, 21 OCT 1145-123, Mahan 220**

Effective as a follow-up to Part I of the book or as a standalone, Small Teaching (Part II: Understanding) guides teachers through research-based methods of encouraging students to connect, practice and explain. Opportunities to incorporate these concepts into teaching in real time will be provided.

A limited number of copies of the book will be available to participants.

This workshop meets a portion of the requirements for the Master Instructor program.

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A Deep Dive into the Submarine Community, Thursday 8, 15, 22 OCT 1145-1230, Mahan 220

This session is an opportunity to hear directly from those at USNA who are members of "The Silent Service" about the unique features of this warfighting community and how the development of future submarine officers is supported by faculty, staff & others across the Yard.

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Trident Days, Week of 19-23 OCT 2026

Volunteer to have a faculty or staff member come to one of your classes—and sign up to sit in on a class yourself. Link to a Google Form to sign up will be sent in early October.

Stockdale Center ITI/CTL Collaboration, Thursdays, 5 & 12 NOV 1200-1315, Wargaming Lab, Mahan Deck 0

Professional Wargaming (5 NOV)

Why do Admirals roll dice? What even is a wargame? Join Prof. Andrew Olson and CDR Ken Maroon for a brief introduction to professional wargaming covering the impact of wargames on national policy and their usage in education. Participants will also get a short demo of the Operational Wargaming System used across the USG, from National Defense University and INDOPACOM wargaming shops to USNA's own Plebe Summer.
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Wargaming in the Classroom (12 NOV)
Why are games effective pedagogy? Come experience an educational game with Prof. Olson and hear from a panel of faculty on their experiences with gaming in the class. Discussion will cover successful examples of integrating wargames into course work, pitfalls to avoid, and an introduction to on campus resources designed to make easy to build wargaming into your syllabus.
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**Foundations of Teaching: Small Teaching (Part III: Inspiration), Wednesday 18 NOV 1145-1235, Mahan 220**

Complementing our September and October workshop series on Small Teaching Part I (Knowledge) and Part III (Understanding) is a single session on Part III (Inspiration). Join us to discuss student belonging & motivation as well as ways that faculty can continue their learning as part of their journeys toward becoming pedagogical experts. Midshipmen Development Center faculty liaison, Dr. Ann Judge, will co-facilitate our conversation.

No sign-up necessary

November is Pop-Up Month!

CTL Pop-Ups are single-session, standalone meetings for faculty to explore together topics that are relevant to the improvement of teaching and learning. Feel free to reply to this email with requests for themes of interest...or offers to organize a Pop-Up!

Master Instructor Program ~~ CDR Angel Rodriguez

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.
Sign up HERE to receive an invitation to the Google Classroom for the program.

Educational Technology Support ~~ Dr. Julie Zhu

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.