Recently, timber structures are getting into rapid development stage in China and the researches and applications on timber structures are rapidly growing. While the professional technicians who are familiar with researches and design of timber structures are urgently lacking, restricts the development of timber structures in China. Several specific problems on course teaching of timber structures in China were analyzed and explored based on the current teaching status of timber structures and the talent requirements of timber structure technique. Some reforming measures were proposed from several aspects including cooperative teaching, teaching methods, professional competition and graduation projects aiming to obtain good teaching efficiency so that the talents specializing in timber structures can adapt themselves to the development of modern timber structures.