Abstract: With the development of network technology rapidly, the way for students to acquire knowledge is more convenient and extensive. This caused classroom teaching objectives changed from the low-level objectives of acquiring knowledge, understanding knowledge and applying knowledge to the high-level objectives of analyzing knowledge, comprehensively evaluating knowledge and knowledge innovation. The middle school stage is the key period to cultivate high-level thinking for students. Therefore, under the theoretical support of the research-led teaching concept by student-centered, the excellent physics class in middle school was explored and constructed. The mixed teaching mode was employed in the excellent physics class based on student-centered and teacher-guided, which contained inquiry teaching mode, task driven teaching mode, project decomposition teaching mode, problem-solving teaching mode, group cooperative-learning teaching mode and so on. Modern educational technology was adequately used in the excellent physics class to assist instruction. Practical results showed that the physics teaching of middle school based on the research-led teaching concept makes students change from passive learning to active learning, which effectively cultivate students' higher-level thinking and improve teaching efficiency.

Key words: research-led, middle school physics teaching, excellent physics class, higher-level thinking