Exploration of teaching modes for “cell biology” in pratacultural science at Lanzhou University

“Cell biology” is an important basics course of Pratacultural Science,and is important in supporting building a professional knowledge system of modern pratacultural science talents. This study examined how to stimulate the students’ interest in learning, highlight the key points, and improve the teaching quality of “cell biology” with limited classroom time. Establishing a set of “cell biology” teaching modes suitable for pratacultural science is a challenge that teachers need to face. The main problems in “cell biology” teaching are that the curriculum system is imperfect, the teaching content is not closely related to the characteristics of pratacultural science, and the students’ understanding of the curriculum is insufficient. With the teaching objectives, the “cell biology” teaching team in the College of Pastoral Agricultural Science and Technology of Lanzhou University have reformed the teaching contents, teaching methods, and assessment methods. The results show that timely updates of professional knowledge, highlighting teaching priorities, integrating scientific stories and scientific research cases, using multimedia teaching, flipped classrooms, and diversified assessment methods have improved the teaching quality.