The rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology has put forward an urgent demand for the knowledge, skills, and literacy of related talents. Against this background, curriculum ideological and political education, as an important way to cultivate IoT talents with both virtue and ability, has increasingly gained attention. Promoting the construction of curriculum ideological and political education in IoT courses in private universities can not only give full play to the unique educational role of each IoT course but also promote the in-depth integration of professional education and ideological and political education, thereby achieving the goal of organic unity of knowledge impartment, ability training, and value shaping. Focusing on IoT courses in private universities, combined with student characteristics and professional positioning, this paper first briefly expounds the necessity and challenges of the innovative teaching model of curriculum ideological and political education in IoT courses. On this basis, it summarizes and proposes effective strategies for the innovation of the teaching model, hoping to provide theoretical reference and practical paradigm for other related engineering majors in private universities to naturally and effectively promote the construction of curriculum ideological and political education, and ultimately cultivate more and more outstanding IoT talents who integrate knowledge and practice.