Abstract: Plant physiology is an important basic course for college students majored in life science, agriculture and forest. Under the background of rapid development in teaching philosophy and discipline frontier, the teaching mode of plant physiology course needs to be improved. In this article, a teaching mode based on the concept of PAD （Presentation, asimilation and discussion） class was introduced, which was designed according to the course features and the teaching situation of plant physiology. And the design was also referred to PAD class in other courses.

Key words: PAD class, plant physiology, course design