As an important and typical course of civil engineering major, concrete structure design has the characteristic of more content, great difficulty and high practicability, so the teaching process of that should be carried out with the principle of elicitation method, comprehensive teaching and open teaching. Combined with the achievements of focal course construction and teaching reform research project, theories and methods about open teaching were proposed in the teaching process of concrete structure design course, including the specific content, method and its application in the theory teaching and practice teaching. The results could be used to the teaching works of other civil engineering courses that have similar characteristics.