教学方法对完成教学任务和人才素质的培养都具有重要的作用。高校体育为适应素质教育需要 ,应当从教法改革入手 ,积极探索更适合现代教育的体育教学方法。在教法改革实践及调查研究的基础上 ,通过对传统教法和新教法适用的对比分析 ,提出了高校体育教学方法改革、发展的思路。 Teaching methods to complete the teaching tasks and personnel quality training has an important role. In order to meet the need of quality education, college physical education should start with the reform of teaching methods and actively explore the teaching methods of physical education that are more suitable for modern education. On the basis of the practice and investigation of the teaching reform, through the comparative analysis of the application of the traditional teaching method and the new teaching method, the ideas of the reform and development of the teaching method of physical education in colleges and universities are put forward.