Abstract: The metaverse is the future form of digital information technology development. Its inherent advantages such as digital avatar collaboration assistant, co-existence of virtual and real scene, super strong social network system, and interconnected & shared data resources are applied in classroom teaching, which will promote the formation of collaborative and precise teaching paradigms, render deep immersion in teaching styles, stimulate multi-dimensional and three-dimensional teaching communication forms, and meet the needs of diversified intelligence teaching evaluation. At the same time, the metaverse may also bring challenges such as inadequate teacher competence, difficulty in adapting to teaching situations, emotional alienation in teacher-student communication, and a lack of humanistic dimension in teaching evaluation. To address such challenges, it is necessary to vigorously enhance the digital competence of teachers, strengthen their ability to adapt to multiple scenarios, shape their rational teaching and communication behaviors, promote the integration of “qualitative” and “quantitative” evaluations, and enhance the humanistic care of teaching evaluations.

Key words: Metaverse, classroom teaching, digital avatar, virtual teachers, human teacher