| For a long time, the designing of the curriculum of geography in the high school has been dominated by the nation, but with the development of society, economy and culture, the deficiency in it has been exposed. Therefore, it is high time for us to break free from the single system and develop the school-based curriculum.The school-based curriculum, on one hand is designed on the basis of national regional curriculum, and on the other hand aims to satisfy the different needs of students in different schools. It is an oppotional course with various characteristics and is developed according to the resources of the local communities and schools. So in the course of developing the school-based curriculum, the relationship between three factors which will influence the designing and constructing of the course should be balanced. The three factors are: the need of the nation, the need of the curriculum system and the need of the development of students' characters.As an important part of quality education, the school-based geography curriculum aims at satisfying students' interest and the need of their character development and improving their ability from all aspects. So as we design the curriculum we should take the analysis of the environment as basis to determine the specific aim, the content and the particular method of presenting the course and to define its basic category. At the same time, proper teaching method should be chosen according to the content of the course and the characteristics of the students. In evaluating the curriculum, the old pattern in which only the results are emphasized should be abandoned while the more scientific method in which importance is attached to the process should be adopted. In this essay, the development and carrying out of the school-based curriculum in our school will be-presented through several cases, and some problems and solutions discovered in the course of teaching will be discussed.
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