Abstract: Soil and Plant Nutrition Course, as the basic and core course of agricultural and landscape majors in higher agricultural education, is the organic integration and deep integration of soil science and plant nutrition courses. This course plays a key role in cultivating students’ practical operation ability and scientific research innovation ability. By analyzing the current teaching status of soil and plant nutrition courses, and aiming at the existing problems such as the need to improve teaching methods, insufficient participation of students in courses, lack of connection between theory and practice, and single teaching assessment and evaluation methods, this paper combines teaching practice and teaching objectives to optimize the teaching content. The four teaching modes of “heuristic teaching, participatory teaching, open teaching and diversified assessment” are adopted to innovate and integrate curriculum teaching reform with the improvement of talent training quality. To cultivate innovative, practical and compound agroforestry talents in the new era for rational utilization of soil resources, solving the problems of soil safety, preventing soil degradation and improving soil fertility.