The education of residential building design is lagging behind, the content of courses, teaching methods and assessment strategies all need to be advance with the times and keep up with market demands. The paper basing on the design theory of residential buildings course in Suzhou University of Science and Technology, is reformed in original syllabus and textbooks aiming at more clear logic, outstanding focus, following frontier and inspired self. The course content are merged, deleted and added, and the teaching time of the course is reallocated, with the assessment methods being adjusted. These make the teaching logic of residential architectural design more clear, the teaching focus more outstanding, the teaching content more vivid, the assessment methods more flexible. Thus, it can better connect with the design market.