由于钢结构专业知识更新周期不断缩短，再加上钢结构课程学时的限制，不可能让学生在校期间学完并掌握所有的专业知识，因此，在教学过程中培养学生的自学能力显得尤其重要。从教学内容的安排、教学方法的设计、支持服务体系的建立等方面，探讨了如何在钢结构课程教学中增强学生的自学意识、培养学生的自学能力。

As the renewal cycle of steel structures’specialty knowledge should been shorted by the incessant, and then the teaching for steel structure course period is limited,it is impossible for the student to learn the whole course and master the specialty knowledge on campus. Therefore, it is very important to let the student acquaint study methods during the teaching of steel structure course. The author discusses how to strengthen the autodidact consciousness and train the autodidact capacity during the teaching for steel structure, that includes arrangement of teaching content, design of teaching methods and the support services system’s instauration etc.