Structural mechanics is an important fundamental course in civil engineering. Strong logicality, high skill nature, and high flexibility are characteristics of the course. In the teaching process, the problem to be solved is how to arouse students’ interest in learning structural mechanics and how to lead students to change passive learning into active learning. Based on characteristics of the course, we studied on methods and measures of improving teaching quality from aspects of teaching concepts, teaching means, and teaching methods. The article points out that 1) teachers should have a basic position in structural mechanics teaching, 2) teachers should use various teaching means to simulate students’ interest, and 3) rational teaching methods should be used to improve teaching quality.