The reform of teaching mode

methods and means is an important way to improve the quality of teaching and to cultivate the students’ innovative spirit and practical ability.This paper aims at changing the passive learning phenomenon

in which the students take the exam as the final finish school purpose in view of the traditional teaching mode

and proposes the rethink teaching mode that practiced in the computer network course teaching.By the course of analysis the practical computer network

proposing the problems of theory and technology to be studied

encourage the students to explore the solution to these problems

such as student’s solution problems in processing performance and judgment as well as teaching process

cultivating students’ capability of analysis to solve the real problems

so as to lay the foundation for the student to the spirit of innovation

team cooperation and the abilities of independent research

lifelong learning

self-teaching and freedom expression

etc.The results of study and practice show that rethink-teaching model is suitable to the engineering specialty basic courses and specialized courses teaching.