Abstract: The problem-solving method, in which teachers are regarded as teaching subject, is a method to organize teaching with problem based learning in the course of education. Problem based learning emphasizes that exploring and solving problems are not only the course of mastering knowledge but the effective way to improve students' comprehensive quality. To conduct the problem based learning of ideological political theory course in the institutions of higher learning the following processes should be laid stress on. First, establishing the comprehensive teaching goals and constructing the problem system by following logics of questions; Second, teachers should play a leading role in problem-based teaching, and then stimulate students' awareness of asking questions and solving problems and developing problem-based teaching with student-centered method, which has a special meaning in ideological political theory course.