Under the influence of the concept of “governing the country according to law,” the general law course has been paid more and more attention by higher vocational teachers. Its teaching goal is to pass on basic and common-sense legal knowledge to students, cultivate the most basic legal awareness and legal literacy of students, improve students’ cognition of law and illegal behavior in life, shape the correct three views for students so that students can use the power of law to protect their legitimate rights and interests. To improve the teaching level of law general courses in higher vocational colleges and reflect the teaching effectiveness of this course, teachers should actively optimize the teaching methods of law general courses. This paper briefly analyzes the problems existing in the current law general course teaching optimization and the necessity of teaching reform and puts forward some teaching methods that can improve the teaching effect of the course.