Teaching reform of pratacultural science practice course in Beijing Forestry University

Pratacultural Science is a science of grassland agricultural system from grassland resources to grassland agricultural production. The characteristics of the discipline requires close connection between theory content and practice. The effectiveness of practice course reflects the mastery degree of grass course content. However, with the rapid development of Chinese forage and turf industry, several issues have exposed, such as the obsolete teaching content of the practice teaching course, unreasonable course time and content distribution, monotonous teaching methods, lack of educational resources, and irrational performance evaluation. The teaching form and contents have been unable to meet the demand. Therefore, on the basis of the traditional Pratacultural Science practice, the teaching model should be reformed including adopting the flexible and diverse teaching methods, optimizing the teaching content, increasing the practice teaching resources, and improving the performance evaluation methods to mobilize students' enthusiasm.The final teaching reform has achieved better teaching results. The teaching goal is more inclined to foster students' thinking ability, and enhance their horizons on professional knowledge. Moreover, a useful attempt in building a training system covering industry, learning and researching has been done.