What is effective teaching? Effective teaching is a teaching concept advocated by the new curriculum, which means that teachers should follow the objective laws of teaching activities and invest as little time, energy and material resources as possible in order to achieve the best possible teaching effect. As a teacher, we should be good at creating teaching situations, cultivating students' ability to read pictures, stimulating students' interest in learning geography, mobilizing students' enthusiasm in exploring geographical issues, making them actively participate in classroom teaching, paying attention to the evaluation of learning process and the guidance of learning methods, promoting their effective learning, and finally achieving good teaching results. Let's talk about some effective teaching methods in geography classroom teaching based on our own practice.

First of all, in the effective teaching of geography, we should create teaching situations to improve the effectiveness of the classroom.

Geography is a comprehensive and interesting subject with rich and wonderful geographical knowledge. In teaching, we should fully study students, study textbooks, make full use of modern auxiliary teaching methods, create situations with flexible and diverse teaching methods, stimulate students' thirst for knowledge, make students change "hard study" into "happy study" and improve the effectiveness of geography classroom. Taking the first volume of the seventh grade of Hunan Education Edition "Volcanic Earthquake Belt and Its Distribution in the World" as an example, I show the pictures of "Beautiful Earth" and "Earthquake Damage" with multimedia courseware, so that students can form a sharp contrast, and then review the scenes of Wenchuan earthquake in China, 3.1/kloc-0 earthquake in Japan and Ya 'an earthquake in Sichuan with short films, bringing students into the teaching scene and making them deeply impressed.

Second, in the effective teaching of geography, we should pay attention to the cultivation of map reading ability and improve the effectiveness of the classroom.

In geography textbooks, there is another language to describe geography knowledge besides the conventional written language.

Phonetics is what we often call the map language. For junior high school students, teaching them how to read and use maps can not only help them understand and remember geographical knowledge, but also help them to establish thinking in images, improve their ability to solve problems and make teaching twice the result with half the effort. In geography classroom teaching, I pay attention to guiding students to read, analyze, use and draw pictures, cultivate students' spatial awareness, and try to integrate geographical knowledge into the map to understand, so that the content and text description on the map can be combined and complement each other, so that the "dead" picture can be "alive" and the "static" word can be "moved". Over time, students naturally develop reading and painting in geography learning. For example, I use image metaphor to educate students to remember the outline shapes of some characters: the outline of Heilongjiang is like a beautiful swan, the outline of Hunan is like a beautiful woman's head, the outline of Britain is like a rabbit eating a pile of grass, and the outline of Italy is like a lady's boots. For example, when I was learning to color the topographic map in layers, I observed the topographic ups and downs by profile observation, and so on.

In addition, geography teachers should teach students some methods of drawing various charts, appropriate statistical analysis knowledge and inductive methods of geographical problems, and then guide students to comprehensively and deeply sort out and analyze geographical information through data expression, maps and various charts. At the same time, teachers should pay special attention to guiding students to analyze the connections and differences of various geographical information, and strive to find new and more valuable geographical information.

Thirdly, in the effective teaching of geography, we should implement exploratory teaching to cultivate students' inquiry ability and improve classroom effectiveness.

Under the traditional teaching mode, students' awareness of cultivating autonomous learning ability is very weak, and students have been in a passive learning state, so it is difficult to improve the teaching quality and the quality of students' lectures. Inquiry geography teaching advocates students to participate in the process of knowledge acquisition independently, master the scientific methods that scientific research must have, acquire scientific concepts by inquiry, and gradually form inquiry ability and scientific attitude. For example, in the study of "land and sea changes", teachers can show students a series of pictures of marine fossils discovered by scientists in the Himalayas and analyze them: what is the geographical environment of the Himalayas in geological times? It is of great value to cultivate students' scientific outlook, scientific interest and inquiry spirit by using the history of science. In addition, the use of maps is an indispensable link in geography teaching, among which the use of sketches is particularly important. In geography teaching, we should make full use of geography sketch and strengthen the cultivation of students' inquiry ability. For example, when studying the contents of the section "Seven continents and Four Oceans" in the first volume of the seventh grade geography of Hunan Education Edition, the teacher can let every student participate in the drawing of the sketch of "Seven continents and Four Oceans"; For example, when learning chinese administrative division, the first volume of the eighth grade of Hunan Education Edition, students can also participate in the outline drawing of provincial administrative regions, and students will do so unconsciously in the process.

Have a good grasp of their relative geographical position. Geographical sketch can not only reveal the relationship between geographical things, but also show the causal relationship between them. The application of geographical sketch not only cultivates students' ability to explore problems, but also improves the effectiveness of classroom teaching.

Fourthly, implement learning evaluation in effective geography teaching to promote students' personality development.

Improve classroom efficiency

Learning evaluation is an evaluation method to promote students' development, including students' self-evaluation, peer evaluation and teacher evaluation. Self-evaluation cultivates students' habit of autonomous learning and conscious thinking. Peer evaluation and teacher evaluation are helpful for students to fully reflect and develop their personality. The new curriculum advocates appreciation education. Regardless of students' grades, teachers should be good at discovering students' bright spots and give them affirmation, encouragement and praise in time. In this way, students will feel the encouragement and trust of teachers, realize the fun brought by learning, and naturally have great learning motivation, thus improving the effectiveness of teaching.

Fifth, we should pay attention to emotional communication in effective geography teaching to improve classroom effectiveness.

One of the highlights of the new curriculum reform is to put forward "three-dimensional goals", namely knowledge and skills, processes and methods, emotional attitudes and values. Only by unifying the "three-dimensional goals" can geography teaching be truly efficient. However, in actual classroom teaching, geography teachers often pay attention to knowledge goals and ignore emotional goals.