Under the development background of new urbanization in China, the role and status of urban and rural planning have witnessed continuous enhancement. In 2011, urban and rural planning specialty got independence from the second-class disciplines in architectonics and is promoted to be a first-class discipline. However, in practice, the architecture design teaching of urban and rural planning specialty still follows the teaching mode of traditional architectonics, thus failing to adapt to the development trend and demands of urban and rural planning discipline. Against this phenomenon, this paper analyzes the problems in architecture design teaching of urban and rural planning specialty, proposes to strengthen the cultivation of students thinking mode, and combining architecture design teaching of kindergarten, puts forward specific teaching methods from the aspects of investigation, assignment book making, drawing content and oral expression.