Teaching bodies criticised the list as being against the principals of Curriculum for Excellence, which was supposed to allow teachers a free hand to choose their teaching materials.
Mr Gray pressed the first minister on the Curriculum for Excellence less than a week after two teaching unions revealed they could be set to take industrial action.
Our reforms: tougher discipline, more rigorous exams, more freedom for headteachers, a more demanding curriculum and higher quality teaching, will drive up standards so our pupils have a first-class education that matches the best in the world.
Indeed, its proposals would probably mean more testing, but in a form that covers the full range of the curriculum, that does not bring high-stakes judgements for schools and teacher, and that neither narrows the curriculum nor constrains teaching.
They have also urged Mr Aznar, in vain, to make a place for religious, rather than just ethical, teaching in the national curriculum.
The UNESCO-USA-Brazil Teaching Respect for All Project has the goal of outlining a curriculum structure that promotes tolerance, adaptable to the contexts and necessities of different countries.
The group adds that the draft curriculum does not mention reproduction again until the end of primary school when the guidance for teaching 10 and 11-year-olds says "they should find out about different types of reproduction, including sexual and asexual reproduction in plants, and sexual reproduction in animals".
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Starting in September 2012, the experts will also evaluate the teaching practices of the current curriculum, using two valid and reliable questionnaires developed for this purpose.
As for the lack of teaching time, how about cutting out some of the nonessential curriculum, such as bike safety, that currently takes up much of the school day, and refocusing on the basics, such as reading, writing and arithmetic?
Not only does the curriculum need to include entrepreneurial classes, but also faculty need to be trained in the pedagogies appropriate for teaching creative and predictive approaches for entrepreneurship.
The Association for Citizenship Teaching says it understands the subject will be made non-statutory in the coming curriculum shake-up.
Teaching to a test not only narrows the curriculum, it means that teachers prepare students specifically for the test.
Mr Gove also complained about teaching materials for primary school children published by the Historical Association, a group which has criticised his curriculum plans.
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