As someone well acquainted with West Point, I'll try and help you out.

West Point follows what they call internally 'the Thayer method', named after Sylvanus Thayer, one of the first superintendents at the academy. The method did, and still does, focus on students learning the material through intense study outside of class, while demonstrating their knowledge in class. This means there is little instruction in classes, other than to correct students' mistakes. This was particularly revolutionary in engineering, math, and science courses, which formed the majority of the school's early curriculum. By emphasizing practical problem solving under a professor's supervision, the engineering and science curriculum quickly became well known.

While this was ahead of its time in terms of engineering education, I'm not entirely sure how closely it is associated with other teaching methods. I know that even to this day the method is held in esteem as a unique aspect of the academy's program. Once the academy entered the modern age and fewer students became engineers it became less distinctive.