Teaching Seminar

Fall 2019

All talks are from 12:00-1:00 p.m. in the Seminar Room, unless otherwise specified.

• Nov

  13
• Brigade Honor Committee Meet and Greet and Policy Updates

  Time: 12:00 PM

  View Abstract

  As Fall Finals approach, come meet the department and Brigade leadership behind the USNA Honor Concept and policies. For new staff, a chance to learn how cheating and honor violations are handled at USNA. For returning staff, a chance to update yourself on brigade policies, provide feedback on any experiences you may have had, and meet the new leadership.

• Oct

  30
• Optimization with Legos

  CDR Gary Lazzaro

  Time: 12:00 PM

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  The speaker will describe a fun math lesson called "Optimization with Legos" that he teaches in his SA302 course as well as in Naval Academy Summer Seminar. He will give the highlights of the lesson to show how he uses Legos to teach a simple resource allocation problem.

• Oct

  09
• Comparison of Teaching in Flight School and in the Classroom

  CDR John Goodenough

  Time: 12:00 PM

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  The speaker will compare and contrast his almost 9 years of teaching flight school to teaching in the classroom. He will discuss setting goals and expectations that are reasonable and achievable, handling the extremes of outstanding as well as very poor performance, and the importance of mentoring to midshipmen and junior officers.

• Oct

  02
• Introduction to the Leadership, Ethics, and Law Department

  CDR David M. Wallace

  USNA

  Time: 12:00 PM

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  CDR David M. Wallace will talk to the Mathematics Department about the Leadership, Ethics, and Law Department - particularly who the faculty are and what they teach. Many professors (junior, senior, military, and civilian alike) are surprised to find out that the Leadership, Ethics, and Law Department is comprised of PhD psychologists, sociologists, and philosophers, as well as Juris Doctors, and that its core and elective curricula are firmly rooted in these disciplines. By visiting the our department, CDR Wallace hopes to build some awareness of the Leadership, Ethics, and Law Department, to converse about helping each other talk about leadership and ethics in our classrooms, and to find opportunities for cross-disciplinary research and writing.

• Sep

  25
• The Daily Question: Stimulating Interest and Alleviating Math Anxiety while Building Classroom Community

  CDR Matthew Hawks

  Time: 12:00 PM

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  The speaker will cover the ground rules for this technique and discuss results gleaned from informal surveys and student opinion forms.

• Sep

  04
• Designing Tests and Exams

  Group discussion

  Time: 12:00 PM