In the course of ideological and political theory teaching, there are different teaching methods based on different teaching emphases. Among them, cognitive teaching methods include course book materials teaching, special subject teaching and interactive teaching; affective teaching approaches include affective experience and situational teaching; volitional teaching methods include motivational teaching and self-education method; and practice-based approaches include classroom practice and social practice. These methods are complementary to each other, and constitute an organic whole of the methodology for teaching ideological and political theory course. Keywords: ideological and political theory course; teaching methods; research overview