Basic Teaching Skills course demands students technically on teaching techniques prior to implementing the program of Program Pengalaman Lapangan (PPL) at school in the next semester. The purpose of this research is to improve the basic skills of teaching students especially on three aspects: ask, explain, and open the lesson or apperception skills. The methods used is modeling of teaching that combined with group guidance as a preparation of learning scenarios. In modeling, the researcher acts as a high school model teacher. Each skills consist of two meeting of learning. Data was collected through an observation sheet given to two observers and video documentation by handycam. The results obtained that through modeling of teaching by researcher can improve the skills of students in teaching. This is reflected by the increasing of the confidence and some basic teaching component achievements in every learning meeting.