Abstract: In order to achieve satisfactory teaching quality in classroom teaching, teaching method should be geared to characteristics of the course. The specialty of the teaching task of ideological and political lessons, its teaching contents and teaching goal demand the teacher to adopt a respective teaching method. “Problem teaching method” takes problem raising and solving as a centre, and is with the characteristics of stimulating activeness, educating in recreation and studying for application, which meets the internal needs of ideological and political lessons in promoting “function of moral education”, is in line with the objective law of cognitive development of the students’ ideological conception and is the effective way to “four real” height.

Key words: universities and colleges, ideological and political lessons, problem teaching method