With China’s economy and society entering a new normal and the gradual implementation of the requirements for ideological and political education in curriculum construction, the teaching reform of professional theory courses is imperative. In order to improve the teaching quality of professional theory courses, the research takes the knowledge transfer theory as the guide, the course of urban planning principles as the case, and explicit knowledge transfer as the carrier, combines tacit knowledge transfer with curriculum-based ideological and political education, and improves the performance of tacit knowledge transfer. Suggestions are put forward focusing on the optimization of teaching content and the improvement of teaching methods. In terms of teaching content, it is necessary to sort out the relationship with other courses, and introduce relevant knowledge of territorial spatial planning into the course. At the same time, attention should be paid to the education of historical materialism and dialectical materialism worldview, so that students can understand the implicit knowledge such as thinking methods contained behind explicit knowledge, establish values of fairness, justice, and safeguarding public interests, strengthen professional literacy education, and adhere to ideals and bottom lines. In terms of teaching methods, case teaching can be used to strengthen the clear expression of explicit knowledge and effectively transfer implicit knowledge such as experience, skills, concepts, and values; increase the interest of classroom content and highlight the importance of knowledge points, and improve students’ learning initiative through daily assessment and class discussion; strengthen interaction and communication between teachers and students to improve knowledge transfer performance. In addition, by tracking teaching effectiveness and combining course characteristics to improve classroom teaching forms, knowledge transfer performance can also be improved.