The core topic of this paper focuses on exploring ways for college teachers to improve their teaching efficacy. Teaching efficacy refers to teachers' ability to judge and anticipate whether they can effectively complete their teaching work and achieve their teaching goals, which is closely related to teaching-related strategies, classroom behaviours, and teaching monitoring ability. By analysing the impact of various factors on teacher efficacy, including school climate, internal management, collegiality, teacher-student relationship, teaching experience, professional development activities, and self-reflection and communication, these factors work together to influence teachers' confidence and teaching effectiveness. The purpose of this paper is to elaborate the concept of teachers' teaching efficacy, explore its influencing factors, and propose effective strategies in this regard, which not only have far-reaching theoretical guiding significance for the development of the discipline, but also play a positive role in promoting the subsequent practice of educational reform. Specific strategies include deepening job awareness, optimizing self-awareness, adjusting attribution patterns, creating an observational learning environment, setting up a teaching supervision system, constructing an emotional support system, and encouraging self-reflection and teaching records, etc., to effectively develop and improve the teaching efficacy of college teachers.

Tang Fen. Teaching Efficacy Enhancement Strategies for Higher Education Teachers. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2025), Vol. 7, Issue 1: 181-186. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2025.070127.

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