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Best lesson planning skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Designs a Chinese K-12 classroom for one OpenMAIC stage around the core-literacy model, using authentic tasks, performance assessment and observable evidence. | THU-MAIC/ | 40k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 2 | Designs a review-and-practice lesson around an independent first attempt, targeted feedback, supported practice, a fresh independent check and a next step. | THU-MAIC/ | 40k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 3 | Clone a dockersamples Labspace repo, extract learning objectives and module structure from labspace.yaml, and produce a Hugo guide page under content/guides/ with correct frontmatter… | docker/ | 4.7k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 4 | Plans a multi-classroom series such as a seven-day course, clarifies the brief in rounds, gets sign-off on the full lesson list, then builds each stage in a shared folder. | THU-MAIC/ | 40k | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 5 | Plans online courses so learners manipulate simulations, diagrams, code, games or 3D scenes on most pages, with slides only for the opening and the close. | THU-MAIC/ | 40k | — | ~681 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 6 | 6.Learn Help a user learn a topic through adaptive tutoring, lesson planning, practice, retrieval checks, explanations, study guides, or exercises. | dair-ai/ | 614 | 2 repos | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 7 | Design HAX course units via Understanding by Design (UbD) backward design — start from desired results, derive acceptable evidence, then plan learning experiences. | haxtheweb/ | 130 | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 8 | Turns a concept or lesson material into a Feynman-style classroom where learners explain first, find their smallest gap, rebuild the idea and apply it somewhere new. | THU-MAIC/ | 40k | — | ~955 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 9 | A Chinese-language skill that embeds learning strategies like retrieval practice and self-explanation as a parallel goal inside an OpenMAIC subject lesson, without making study skills the topic. | THU-MAIC/ | 40k | — | ~502 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 10 | Design classroom management and differentiated support plans for real teaching constraints. | mingchen666/ | 236 | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 16 days ago |
| 11 | Designs a slide-driven masterclass lecture as one continuous argument, with dense pages, long narration, real recurring cases and rare, deliberate checkpoints instead of frequent quizzes. | THU-MAIC/ | 40k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 12 | Designs a multi-lesson course series around a few core concepts that return at higher levels of complexity, abstraction, transfer and boundary awareness, not as repeated review. | THU-MAIC/ | 40k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 13 | Plans an OpenMAIC lesson or course series by backward design: enduring understandings and essential questions first, then performance evidence, then learning activities. | THU-MAIC/ | 40k | — | ~548 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 14 | Adds a social-emotional learning goal next to the subject concept in an OpenMAIC classroom lesson, without turning the class into a counseling or homeroom session. | THU-MAIC/ | 40k | — | ~435 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 15 | Baseline procedure for building one new classroom stage: settle the page plan with you, create the stage, write the roster, then generate each page in order. | THU-MAIC/ | 40k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 16 | Turn a lesson plan into a teaching slide deck in Canva. An agent skill from canva-sdks/canva-skills. | canva-sdks/ | 115 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 3 mo ago |
| 17 | Audit a proposed assessment for construct validity, reliability, and alignment to learning objectives. | GarethManning/ | 830 | — | ~4.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 18 | Find, verify, and curate teaching resources for lesson preparation. | mingchen666/ | 236 | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 16 days ago |
| 19 | A skill your agent uses when a tutorial concept DAG exists and the run needs an ordered teaching plan with objectives and outputs. | WILLOSCAR/ | 513 | — | ~329 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 days ago |
| 20 | UbD Stage 3 — plan learning experiences via WHERETO, derived from Stages 1+2. | haxtheweb/ | 130 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 21 | A skill your agent uses when an instructor asks for a MATLAB Grader assessment setup guide, adoption guide, pilot plan, course-specific rollout, QTI 3 sharing workflow, or recommended MATLAB Grader… | matlab/ | 181 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 26 days ago |
| 22 | A skill your agent uses when an instructor asks for a MATLAB AI tutor setup guide, adoption guide, pilot plan, course-specific rollout, or recommended tutor configuration based on a learning… | matlab/ | 181 | — | ~867 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 26 days ago |
| 23 | Design purposeful classroom activities, inquiry tasks, discussion prompts, questioning chains, group work, experiments, demos, warm-ups, exit tickets, peer instruction, and interactive learning… | mingchen666/ | 236 | — | ~839 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 16 days ago |
| 24 | Create teacher-ready lesson plans and instructional designs for real classroom preparation. | mingchen666/ | 236 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 16 days ago |
| 25 | Design classroom assessment, formative checks, rubrics, exit tickets, homework grading standards, diagnostic feedback, classroom observation forms, student self/peer assessment, and teaching… | mingchen666/ | 236 | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 16 days ago |
| 26 | Write and polish formal teaching documents for teachers, school offices,教研 and training contexts. | mingchen666/ | 236 | — | ~871 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 16 days ago |
| 27 | Create teacher-ready worksheets, guided learning sheets, preview sheets, class exercises, homework, layered assignments, remediation sheets, answer keys, and teacher notes. | mingchen666/ | 236 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 16 days ago |
| 28 | Adapt a classroom task for specific learner needs while preserving the core learning objective intact. | majiayu000/ | 666 | 1 repo | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 29 | Unpack a broad standard or competency descriptor into specific, assessable success criteria and sub-skills. | GarethManning/ | 830 | — | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 30 | Analyse student work against criteria to identify specific gaps between current performance and learning objectives. | GarethManning/ | 830 | — | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 31 | Design a lesson that embeds PERMA wellbeing elements alongside academic learning objectives. | GarethManning/ | 830 | — | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 32 | Online-course / workshop module deck — warm paper background + Playfair serif, persistent left sidebar of learning objectives, MCQ self-check page. | sanqiufong/ | 132 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 33 | A skill your agent uses when asked 帮我写教案, 写一份新课标教案, 教学设计, 单元教学设计, 大单元教案, or a lesson plan in the format Chinese schools expect. | mohitagw15856/ | 1.4k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 34 | Build a standards-aligned K-12 lesson plan with clear objectives, a timed activity sequence, checks for understanding, and differentiation. | mohitagw15856/ | 1.4k | — | ~784 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 35 | Generate a quiz or test on any topic with a balanced mix of question types and difficulty, plus a complete answer key with explanations. | mohitagw15856/ | 1.4k | — | ~667 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 36 | Design a structured lesson plan for any subject, audience, or format. | mohitagw15856/ | 1.4k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 37 | Modify a lesson plan using SIOP sheltered instruction principles to support language learners across all four skills. | GarethManning/ | 830 | — | ~6.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 38 | 38.Grad Blooms Apply Bloom's revised taxonomy to classify learning objectives and design assessments across six cognitive levels. | asgard-ai-platform/ | 241 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 39 | Creates assessments with varied question types (MCQ, code-completion, debugging, projects) aligned to learning objectives with meaningful distractors based on common misconceptions. | aiskillstore/ | 430 | — | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | today |
| 40 | Research developer documentation audiences by mapping user goals, learning objectives, business goals, developer traits, user questions, personas, user stories, journey maps, and friction logs. | hashgraph-online/ | 1.2k | — | ~913 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 41 | A specialized skill for question design and learning level analysis using Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. | revfactory/ | 1.3k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 6 mo ago |
| 42 | A full production pipeline where an agent team collaborates to design online courses all at once — curriculum, lesson plans, quizzes, and hands-on labs. | revfactory/ | 1.3k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 6 mo ago |
| 43 | A learning design skill used by the curriculum-designer and content-writer agents. | revfactory/ | 1.3k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 6 mo ago |
| 44 | Expert Curriculum Developer with 15+ years experience in instructional design, learning objectives, course development, and educational assessment. | theneoai/ | 183 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 45 | Expert Instructional Coach specializing in teacher development, classroom observation, reflective practice, and professional learning. | theneoai/ | 183 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 46 | 46.K12 Teacher A world-class K-12 teacher specializing in curriculum design, student assessment, differentiated instruction, and classroom management. | theneoai/ | 183 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 47 | Expert Language Teacher specializing in second language acquisition, communicative language teaching, and intercultural competence. | theneoai/ | 183 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 48 | Expert Montessori Teacher specializing in the Montessori Method, prepared environments, self-directed learning, and sensitive periods. | theneoai/ | 183 | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best lesson planning skill?
K-12 Core Literacy Lesson Design from THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC ranks first of the 56 lesson planning skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 40k GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 2.4k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Zone of Proximal Development Practice Lessons and Create Lab Guide.
Which lesson planning skills are official?
1 of the 56 lesson planning skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Create Lab Guide.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.