本文从英语教学中学优生、学困生、中等生的学习认知需求探寻教学策略的优化,以此阐述教学策略运用对破解两极分化和满足学生层次学习发展需要的推动作用。建立在尊重学生学习差异基础上的教学思维方法,在增强学生学习认知体验的基础上,提高学生语言表达综合运用的能力。围绕不同层次和类型学生的英语学习发展需要制定适宜的教学方法,是优化教学过程与方法,提高课程教学有效性的有益尝试。 This essay explores the optimization of teaching strategies from the cognitive needs of middle school students, students with learning difficulties and secondary students in English teaching, and then expounds the impetus of using teaching strategies to break the polarization and meet the needs of students’ learning development. On the basis of respecting the difference of students’ learning differences, this paper builds the teaching thinking method and enhances the students’ cognitive ability of learning based on the improvement of students’ ability of language expression. The development of English learning around the different levels and types of students requires the development of appropriate teaching methods, which is a useful attempt to optimize the teaching process and method and improve the effectiveness of teaching.