Based on the background of vocational and technical school education, this paper expounds the present situation and problems in the field of construction engineering data management and its professional practitioners ‐‐ data personnel. The content first discusses the practice and research on teachers' teaching methods of construction engineering materials courses from the aspects of school education, classroom teaching, social needs, industry standards and professional requirements, and subsequently puts forward an innovatively composite teaching method with the core of retelling strategy and processing strategy based on information processing psychology, taking the leading concept of stratified teaching, and applying multi‐channel situational teaching mode combined with information software technology teaching strategy, complemented by stimulating students' individual initiative. It aims to train each student to become a qualified engineering project documenter with excellent professional quality, skills, and the ability to quickly adapt to professional work.