AI Agent Skills for Teachers
Teaching is a loop: you set outcomes, design activities that could produce them, deliver the session, assess whether the outcome happened, and give feedback a learner can use next time. Access runs through all of it — the loop has to work for more than the median student, so inclusion is a constraint on every stage rather than a separate add-on. Skills in this topic cover that whole cycle: writing outcomes a learner can act on, choosing instructional design, running delivery, building assessment, and shaping feedback. Use the ranked list by starting with the stage where your loop is weakest, then read the skill's description to confirm it addresses that stage. Direct matches to the topic appear first, so work down until one fits the stage you are fixing.
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Teaching is a loop: outcomes, design, deliver, assess, feedback — inclusion is a constraint, not an add-on.
These are the closest matches for this work. Start with the first one and open it to install.
- Rank 01View Agent SkillDirect
k12-lesson-plan-creation
Official> Creates a lesson plan, student-facing materials, and observation template. Load this skill BEFORE asking the teacher any clarifying question about grade, subject, topic, standard, or timing. Use when a K-12 teacher needs a math, ELA, science, or social studies lesson built from scratch — even if grade, subject, or topic isn't yet stated. Do NOT load for grading, a rubric, assessment feedback, a quiz, or a standards lookup — answer those directly. Triggers on explicit requests (lesson plan, mini-lesson, unit plan, daily plan) and implicit teacher intent: "I'm teaching long division to 5th graders," "need to teach photosynthesis tomorrow." Core signal: teacher needs new instructional content created. A new lesson that asks for differentiated, tiered, or leveled materials is still ONE planning request — this skill produces those materials inside the lesson package; do not also invoke k12-lesson-differentiation. Not for differentiating an existing lesson (use k12-lesson-differentiation) or passage rewrites.
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k12-lesson-differentiation
OfficialAdapts an existing K-12 lesson (math, ELA, science, or social studies) for students at different proficiency levels (below / at / above grade level). Load this skill BEFORE asking the teacher any clarifying question about the lesson, tiers, or student levels. Triggers on explicit asks to differentiate, tier, or scaffold a lesson, and on implicit signals like "my students are at different levels". Produces 1 teacher-facing differentiation plan + 3 student-ready tier documents as editable Word documents in a single output turn, rendered from one material-source JSON via bundled scripts (shared content is written once so tiers cannot drift). Uses the Learning Commons Knowledge Graph when connected; works without it. This skill adapts a lesson the teacher brings or names. Not for creating a new lesson from scratch — a new-lesson request that asks for differentiated or leveled materials is k12-lesson-plan-creation's job, one package. Not for grading, rubrics, assessment feedback, or quizzes.
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k12-core-literacy-planning
NotableChinese K-12 core-literacy course design for a single OpenMAIC classroom. Use when a teacher asks for 中小学课程、核心素养、素养导向、2022 课标、真实情境、任务群、表现性评价, or wants a grade-and-subject lesson designed around authentic tasks rather than content delivery. Covers Chinese, mathematics, languages, science, humanities, technology, arts, PE and labor education across primary, junior-high and senior-high stages.
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understanding-by-design
NotableUse Understanding by Design (UbD) to plan one OpenMAIC classroom or a course series around transferable conceptual understanding. Use when the user wants backward design, enduring understandings, essential questions, GRASPS performance evidence, WHERETO learning experiences, or a concept-centered lesson rather than a list of facts. Do not use for visual style cloning, teacher-style imitation, or direct PPT import.
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k12-check-for-understanding
Official> Creates a Check for Understanding (CFU) for a math topic or standard: 1–3 targeted formative items whose distractors come from documented student misconceptions, plus a teacher guide routing each likely response to a specific next instructional step. Load BEFORE asking any clarifying question about grade, standard, or topic. This skill is for math; for other subjects, help as you normally would and don't mention the skill to the user. Triggers on asks to create, write, generate, or design a check for understanding, formative check, quick check, or exit ticket for a math concept or standard, and on implicit signals like "I need to see who got it before I move on." Not a quiz, test, or practice set — a CFU is read for what it reveals, not scored, so a numbered quiz or a bare answer key is a different job. Does not create a lesson (k12-lesson-plan-creation, which brings its own exit ticket), tier one (k12-lesson-differentiation), or prepare a teacher to teach one (k12-lesson-prep).
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k12-lesson-prep
Official> Helps a teacher prepare to teach an existing K-12 lesson (math / ELA / science / social studies) — a prep partner that thinks through the lesson's key student task with the teacher and leaves a short teacher-only prep note. Triggers on asks to internalize, prepare for, get ready to teach, or understand a lesson, including implicit ones ("help me get ready for tomorrow's lesson"), and right after another skill built a lesson, which it can follow. Not for building or adapting a lesson, grading, rubrics, assessment feedback, or generating quizzes or student-facing material, and not for single-fact lookups a sentence would answer ("what standard is this?", "how long is this lesson?").
- Rank 07View Agent SkillDirect
teacher-style-clone
Notable工作台会话挂载了教师课堂录像/讲义材料时使用。
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Teaches the user a new skill or concept across sessions using a stateful workspace with lessons, learning records, and reference materials.
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style-clone
NotableBuilding a new course inside someone else's deck — import the deck as a library of layouts, then produce each page of the new course by copying the layout that fits it and rewriting that copy's content element by element, so the result reads as though the original author made it. Use when the session has an imported deck (or a `.pptx` to import) and the ask is to teach new material in its design — its palette, its typography, its way of dividing a page. Not for a straight import that must stay slide-for-slide identical to the file (that is `pptx-import`), and not for extracting how a teacher s
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slidev
NotableCreate and present web-based slidedecks for developers using Slidev with Markdown, Vue components, code highlighting, animations, and interactive features. Use when building technical presentations, conference talks, code walkthroughs, teaching materials, or developer decks.
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What this topic covers
Each sub-topic groups Agent Skills for a specific situation.
- Outcomes
- What a learner should be able to do afterward.
- Instructional design
- Activities that could produce those outcomes.
- Delivery
- The session itself.
- Assessment
- How you know the outcome happened.
- Feedback
- Information a learner can use next time.
- Access
- Works for more than the median student.
Frequently asked questions
- What kinds of skills are listed under Teachers?
- They map to the five stages of the teaching loop plus access: outcomes, instructional design, delivery, assessment, and feedback. Some skills target one stage, such as writing an outcome a learner should be able to demonstrate afterward; others touch several.
- How is the list ordered?
- The list is ranked by observed search demand, with direct matches to the topic first and a cap on any single publisher. Work down the ranking until a skill matches the stage of the loop you are trying to fix.
- Where should I start if I only pick one skill?
- Start with the stage where your loop breaks down. If learners cannot say what they should be able to do afterward, look at outcomes; if they can do it in the session but not later, look at assessment or feedback.
- Why is access listed as a sub-topic rather than its own category?
- Because inclusion is a constraint on the whole loop, not an add-on. A skill for outcomes, design, delivery, assessment, or feedback should still be checked against whether it works for more than the median student.
How to install an Agent Skill
Start with the first skill on this page. Claude Code reads a SKILL.md once it is in the skills directory:
- Claude Code — copy the SKILL.md for k12-lesson-plan-creation into ~/.claude/skills/k12-lesson-plan-creation/ for yourself, or .claude/skills/k12-lesson-plan-creation/ to share it with a project.
- From the registry — run npx skills add anthropics/k12-teacher-skills@k12-lesson-plan-creation.
- Or download k12-lesson-plan-creation from its source and place that SKILL.md in the directory above.
How to choose Check the source and the skill’s own instructions before you install. Official and Notable describe where a skill comes from.