As the core theory course of urban and rural planning specialty, urban planning principle has expanded rapidly in its content, and its knowledge structure has become more complicated. Under the background of urban and rural planning specialty upgrading to the first-level discipline, it is an inevitable process to improve its teaching pattern and teaching system to realize a favorable development of urban planning specialty. Rethinking the teaching problems and giving new teaching ideas of urban planning principle of urban and rural planning specialty, it is believed that teaching reflection and teaching reform of urban planning principle based on OBE concept will play a positive role in improving students' ability and promoting teaching reform.