Abstract: "World geography" is an important specialized basic course of geographical science (normal) specialty in higher normal college. this course teach students the continents and oceans world geography knowledge and discusses the problems of the world geography based on man-land relationship and sustainable development theory, and taking globalization as a background. "World geography" is a course which including the acknowledge in nature and humanities, regions and departments, theory and application geography. It is one of the most comprehensive, regional and applied courses in geography science (normal) specialty in university. It has an important significance for a connecting link between the theory and regional practice, and also one of the professional courses to provide the necessary knowledge for the quality education of citizens to adapt to the 21st century. With the comprehensively promote and continuously deepen of the quality education and the basic education reform in China, the new requirements and challenges are put forward for the teaching of "world geography" and the cultivation of new teachers in normal colleges and universities. The paper analyze the teaching contents, instructional objectives of "world geography" in junior middle school, senior high school and university, summarize the mutual connection in different teaching stages on knowledge structure, knowledge system, knowledge focus, knowledge scope, subject ability, map ability, emotion attitude and value concept. Based on the deepening of basic education reform in order to establish the concept of geographical basic values, training regional cognition, enhancing geographical practical ability and improving ability of comprehensive thinking as the guide, this paper analyzes the better way of “World Geography” teaching in the following aspects as teaching content, teaching method and teaching means, including developing the global awareness and man-nature harmonization, enhancing the effectiveness and openness of the teaching contents, improving the ability of thinking and practical and pay attention to quality education of students and teachers.