The overseas Chinese students are an important educating group in the higher education institutions for overseas Chinese. Soil mechanics is a necessary compulsory course for undergraduate students of civil engineering. We analyzed the major issues during teaching overseas Chinese student from different aspects, such as students’ different education background in high school, students’ learning interests, characteristics of soil mechanics, and the teaching experience of the lecturer. Taking Huaqiao University as an example, we proposed a series of teaching approaches and teaching contents of soil mechanics suitable for the overseas Chinese students based on our teaching experience.