Teaching Approach Reform of Metal Structures of Cranes Course

For limited period and rapidly update knowledge, teaching approach of metal structures of cranes is innovated to improve students’ self-directed studying abilities. The contents of this course are optimized, and the metal structure knowledge system is built based on mind-map theory. The heuristic method and discussion method are applied to improve teaching effect. According to these teaching methods, students autonomously search and collect and study relative literatures. Their achievements are evaluated by comprehensive assessment with integration of teacher’s assessment, self and mutual assessment of students proposed in this paper. This improved teaching approach is applied in course of this autumn term. The results show that students’ studying interesting is promoted and self-directed studying abilities are improved.