Abstract:In order to train students to have innovative consciousness and applied ability, resolve the contradiction between increasing content and decreasing class hours, several kinds of discuss-based teaching methods put in practice on microbiology classroom were proposed in this paper, including debate contest, academic report contest and lecture competition. It has been found that compared with traditional classroom teaching methods of instilling, these new measures had many obvious advantages, such as enlivened atmosphere in classroom and redoubled effect of teaching, students acted as judges so teacher and students mixed together, encouraged students to create something new and developed different individual characters, made up for inadequate class hours and widened contents of curriculum. Qualities of students who were trained were improved significantly.
