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Yamagata Prefectural Touohgakkan Junior and Senior High School
- Level/s of EducationSecondaryRegionHokkaido/Tohoku
- Main areas of activity No registration
| Location | 1-7-1, Chuominami, Higashine-shi, Yamagata |
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| TEL. | (+81)237-53-1542 |
| Website | http://www.touohgakkan-jhh.ed.jp/ |
| Membership | 2018 |
2025 Annual Report
Biodiversity, Climate change, Energy, Environment, International understanding, Sustainable production and consumption, Health, Dietary education
The year 2025 was our 4th year of the SSH III period, and we continued our practices both in ESD and inquiry studies aimed at achieving the SDGs. Opportunities to present our students’ research to schools outside our own have become richer than in the previous year.
Especially, START2025, the 4th annual English presentation competition, was held as a place to present what students learned through their inquiry studies on the SDGs. Nonghinwittayakom School (Thailand), which was introduced to us through ASPUnivNet, participated for three consecutive years. In addition, two other institutions (Naresuan University Demonstration School and SCiUS), both from Thailand, visited us to join this event this year. Including schools from Tokyo, Hyogo, Niigata, Iwate, Akita, Miyagi, and Yamagata, a total of 16 schools participated.
Upon their arrival, students from NUD and SCiUS had opportunities to engage in exchange activities with our students through regular classes and student council activities, leading to the expansion of our exchange programs.
In addition to practices at the whole-school level, both group and individual activities have also become more active. One good example can be seen in a project on preserving Pungitius modestus, an endangered species, conducted in collaboration with the Pungitius modestus Habitat Conservation Council in Higashine. Another group works on conserving the Ice Monsters in Zao, Yamagata City, both contributing to playing active roles in achieving the SDGs.
Another significant improvement can be seen in curriculum redesign. In a class called “CLIL English I,” our students have started to learn English together with other subjects such as history, biology, and economics. Themes for the classes were determined from the perspective of ESD, resulting in topics such as “Poverty in Africa and Its Development,” “Preserving Biodiversity,” “Environmental Issues,” “Environmental Issues and Diet,” and “AI and Jobs.”
All of the above shows that our school’s practices were implemented in broader ways than in the previous year, enriching our ESD activities as a whole.
Annual Work Plan
Inquiry studies on the SDGs will be continued in the next school year, together with increasing opportunities to present the outcomes of these projects. In addition, by deepening our relationships with our sister schools abroad and enriching our programs with students from those schools, we aim to provide wider opportunities for our students to engage in international programs. Classes based on the perspective of ESD will also be continued and further developed.