2018 Volume 13 Issue 1 Pages 251-272
The author conducted a training session based on geographical contents for renewing educational personnel certification in August 2017 at the Chiba Institute of Science, Chiba prefecture, central Japan. The session was held as a combination of fieldwork, in-class practice, and final examination. It comprised outdoor wandering to enjoy local nature, interpretation of topographical maps and aerial photographs, and presentations using illustration drawings. The 20 participants, who were teachers of nursery, elementary, junior high, and high schools, were generally satisfied with the session and evaluated it as sufficiently useful for application in their own school lessons. Such sessions based on active learning are effective as an outreach of geography for school teachers who are not specialized in geography and should be extensively carried out in the future.
