8 essential classroom teaching skills for teachers
Time:2025-12-26
Source:Artstep
Some people say that teaching is both a science and an art, because classroom teaching relies on the guidance of scientific theories and emphasizes the art of communication with people. What are the skills required for high-quality classroom teaching? How a teacher, especially a new teacher, attracts students, inspires them, asks them questions, manages them, introduces them, explores them, consolidates them, and concludes them are all very basic and commonly used classroom teaching skills.
1. How to attract students
Teaching and learning are the spiritual exchanges between teachers and students, and successful teaching does not rely solely on teachers' one-sided indoctrination. Therefore, it is essential for teachers to design teaching based on students' real-life situations to maintain and stimulate their interest in learning.
The main ways to attract students can be summarized as follows: connection, challenge, change, and charm.
The so-called connection refers to the teaching design should connect the objective reality of students with the teaching reality, so that the teaching content is not empty but meaningful, and is related to their existing experience and knowledge. Mediocre and sluggish teaching arrangements cannot attract students. Teachers should try their best to improve teaching efficiency and make students feel fulfilled in their studies.
For example, various teaching methods are used in class, interspersed with various teaching tasks such as guessing, observing, listening, thinking, operating, self-learning, discussing, calculating, group competitions.
The last way to attract students is to increase the teacher's own charm, such as wonderful language, fluent teaching style, concise and beautiful blackboard writing, friendly language, enthusiastic encouragement, trusting gaze, agile thinking, etc., all of which will help establish a good teacher-student relationship and make students "love their teachers and believe in their teachings".
If teachers can stimulate students' emotional and volitional needs, the effect will be long-lasting and enormous.
2. How to inspire students
Some teachers like to take over and chew up knowledge before feeding them to students, but in class, the teacher sings solo and students feel that learning is not challenging and boring.
Other teachers do not approve of this cramming teaching method, thinking that the problem lies in the teacher talking too much. Therefore, they increase the time for students to practice or engage in frequent Q&A between teachers and students to reduce the teacher's speaking time. However, as a result, students are firmly bound by the teacher's questions and have no opportunity to think about their own questions. When encountering new problems, they often cannot draw analogies, and this teaching method is still not inspiring.
The key to inspiring students includes the following words: orientation, bridging, implication, and revelation.
Firstly, teachers need to make it clear to students what problems they want them to solve. Without clear tasks, it is difficult to complete them well. Secondly, it is important to bridge the gap implicitly. If the teacher's prompts to students are too direct, they will lose the original intention of inspiration. Therefore, it is best to help students by guiding them to engage in certain activities and solve some easier problems.
For example, using visual means such as objects, models, examples, and diagrams to inspire students to draw conclusions and form ideas from activities such as observation, comparison, analysis, and induction. After the exploration is completed, the teacher should remember to restate or rewrite the correct actions that the students originally wanted to do but did not know how to do them, and the correct ideas that they wanted to say but did not know how to say them in concise language. This can help to organize the students' thinking, clarify right and wrong, and provide demonstrations.
3. How to ask students in class is an important component of classroom teaching.
Questioning can effectively attract students' attention, receive timely teaching feedback, and inspire students' positive thinking. Providing opportunities for mutual discussion and communication in the classroom can deepen students' impression of the knowledge they have learned. Some students experience a sense of success they have never experienced before because of an excellent answer, and thus fall in love with learning.
The design of the questions raised is the key to the quality of questioning. A new knowledge has just been learned, and in order to achieve timely feedback and reinforcement, teachers can ask some simple questions.
Due to the lack of thought-provoking nature of simple questions, they can occupy a relatively small proportion in classroom questioning, especially in some good classes and classes with difficult learning content. Most classroom questioning needs to be challenging for students in order to guide them to actively think and even engage in lively discussions.
4. How to manage students
Focusing on the classroom atmosphere of students is an important guarantee for successful teaching. So, some teachers don't rush to give a lecture after the bell rings, but instead take a few seconds to look around the whole class and signal students to concentrate. This brief silence is also commonly used to manage a lax classroom atmosphere, and the teacher's slightly angry gaze can deter some undisciplined students.
However, this silent management has a narrow applicability and in most cases requires verbal intervention from teachers.
For example, if a student gives an outrageous answer and other students burst into laughter, the teacher cannot agree and should quickly find the reason. Is it because the student did not hear the problem clearly? Is it due to students' unclear pronunciation that caused misunderstandings among everyone? Or did the students lose focus in class and become distracted? If reasonable elements are found in the errors, teachers should promptly affirm them, fill the gaps for students, and educate and inspire everyone.
Sometimes, teachers themselves may make some mistakes. If it is a serious mistake, teachers should not only immediately correct it, but also sincerely apologize to students, and avoid using force to pressure others and using unreasonable arguments.
5. How to introduce and create learning contexts
As the saying goes, 'A good start is half done.' When preparing lessons, teachers usually have to rack their brains to design a captivating introduction.
Generally speaking, an import requires completing at least one of the following four tasks: attracting attention, stimulating motivation, establishing connections, and organizing guidance.
For example, when teaching the theorem of sum of interior angles of a triangle, a teacher assigned students to draw any number of triangles and measure the degrees of the three interior angles of each triangle they drew. The next day, the teacher asked the students to test the teacher, and as long as they said the degrees of two angles, the teacher would definitely be able to say the degree of the third angle.
Students all want to stump teachers. Do you want to know the secret behind it? "Asked the teacher? Then the new lesson was imported.
This is a good example of using activities and problems to introduce, successfully completing the four tasks of introduction. Teachers first use student activity modes to encourage students to take the teacher exam, in order to attract students' attention; Inspire students with a strong motivation to learn from their experience of failing exams;
The introduction of teachers is not only based on the previous day's homework, but also closely related to new knowledge, strengthening the connection between new knowledge and the introduction of knowledge; Finally, the teacher's guidance points out that the sum of the interior angles of a triangle follows a regular pattern, revealing the teaching objectives of this lesson.
From this example, it can be seen that the key to problem-based learning lies in creating exciting problem scenarios that can both attract students and closely connect with new knowledge.
6. How to explore
Before organizing student exploration, teachers must go through exploration and thinking about which ideas are not feasible, which ideas are feasible but troublesome, and which ideas are shortcuts.
Some teachers have blindly explored with students by casually saying 'let's study this problem', but due to lack of preparation in advance and insufficient estimation of the difficulty of the problem, they were unable to inspire and guide students, wasting valuable teaching time.
When organizing student exploration, teachers should control time and master the rhythm of each stage. You can start slowly to ensure that each student has a clear understanding of the questions to be explored, and then move on to the real exploration. Otherwise, if you are in a hurry, either some students have not reviewed the questions clearly and gone in the wrong direction, or some students have fallen behind when others started.
Sharpening the knife is not a mistake for chopping wood, and it is better to be slow than fast in the task stage.
When students encounter difficulties collectively, the exploration experience of teachers often serves as a valuable reference. Teachers can use intuitive teaching aids, images, or insightful language to provide targeted inspiration; When students explore the wrong path, teachers can point out why it doesn't work and guide them towards the correct direction;
When students' exploration ideas are feasible but cumbersome, teachers should promptly affirm them, point out better methods, and encourage students to explore new paths.
Sometimes students' exploration results are very rich, especially when they come up with multiple solutions to a problem and constantly come up with innovative ideas.
At this time, it is often the most difficult to control the teaching time. However, the principle of "minimum guarantee without limit" should be followed, and the basic tasks of teaching should be completed. Students' creative achievements should be communicated as much as possible in class, and those that are not fully displayed in class can be announced through channels similar to "learning gardens".
After the exploration is completed, the teacher should organize students to reflect and review the process of exploration, summarize successful ideas and areas of failure.
In addition to completing the exploration tasks assigned by teachers, students' spontaneous discovery of explorable questions is also important for their development. Teachers encourage students to make bold guesses and propose different opinions, which requires high preparation and adaptability skills.
7. How to consolidate
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6. How to explore
Before organizing student exploration, teachers must go through exploration and thinking about which ideas are not feasible, which ideas are feasible but troublesome, and which ideas are shortcuts.
The main methods of consolidating and strengthening knowledge are to enhance memory and reflection. Firstly, the rules of memory should be utilized. Whether in the exploration stage of new knowledge or in the consolidation and reinforcement stage, teachers should try to help students remember and reduce forgetting.
The second important method of consolidation is reflection. Building new knowledge on students' existing foundations, making their existing cognitive structures a growth point for the knowledge to be learned.
When students reach a certain level, teachers lead them to reorganize the knowledge they have learned. This can help students deepen their comprehensive understanding of the knowledge they have learned, reduce their memory capacity, and promote memory retention.
The common method for consolidation and reinforcement is to solve problems. The questions designed and arranged by teachers should have a gradient, but solving problems should not be limited to completing written exercises. Sometimes games or competitions can also be used. Changing learning methods are more effective in enhancing students' interest than monotonous exercises.
8. How to end it
Although sometimes teachers have to hastily conclude their teaching due to a lack of control over the pace, this stage is still an important part of the lesson.
At this stage, teachers can summarize and generalize, highlight key content, remind students of mistakes to pay attention to or avoid, praise students who have performed outstandingly in class and their thinking methods, and play a retrospective role.
Teachers can also extend learning appropriately, broaden students' horizons, and use the logical connections between classes to bring out the next topic and lay the groundwork.