The teaching philosophy of “from the simple learning knowledge to learning knowledge and culturing the ability of solving practical engineering problems” was established, new teaching modules of soil mechanics course were constructed based on the “teaching, learning and using” trinity, the main basic framework were established including the teacher module, the teaching module and the student module, basic approaches were presented from five aspects including classroom teaching, experiment teaching, practice teaching of the construction site, teachers training schools, and cooperation and exchange of teachers with production units, and corresponding courseware was produced. The reform greatly improved students’ soil mechanics theories and related practical abilities, and significantly upgraded the personnel training quality.