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Best lesson planning skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.

Skills that draft lesson plans, activities and learning objectives for teachers.
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Lesson planning skills, ranked

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Lesson planning skills, ranked
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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/OpenMAIC40k—~2.4kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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/OpenMAIC40k—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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/docs4.7k—~1kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
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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/OpenMAIC40k—~2.8kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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/OpenMAIC40k—~681Automated safety check: PassMITtoday
6

Help a user learn a topic through adaptive tutoring, lesson planning, practice, retrieval checks, explanations, study guides, or exercises.

dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins6142 repos~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 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/haxcms-php130—~2.2kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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/OpenMAIC40k—~955Automated safety check: PassMITtoday
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/OpenMAIC40k—~502Automated safety check: PassMITtoday
10

Design classroom management and differentiated support plans for real teaching constraints.

mingchen666/Reviva236—~1kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence16 days ago
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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/OpenMAIC40k—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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/OpenMAIC40k—~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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Plans an OpenMAIC lesson or course series by backward design: enduring understandings and essential questions first, then performance evidence, then learning activities.

THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC40k—~548Automated safety check: PassMITtoday
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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/OpenMAIC40k—~435Automated safety check: PassMITtoday
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/OpenMAIC40k—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
16

Turn a lesson plan into a teaching slide deck in Canva. An agent skill from canva-sdks/canva-skills.

canva-sdks/canva-skills115—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.03 mo ago
17

Audit a proposed assessment for construct validity, reliability, and alignment to learning objectives.

GarethManning/education-agent-skills830—~4.9kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown1 mo ago
18

Find, verify, and curate teaching resources for lesson preparation.

mingchen666/Reviva236—~1kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence16 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/research-units-pipeline-skills513—~329Automated safety check: PassNo licence2 days ago
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UbD Stage 3 — plan learning experiences via WHERETO, derived from Stages 1+2.

haxtheweb/haxcms-php130—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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/agent-skills-playground181—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown26 days ago
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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/agent-skills-playground181—~867Automated safety check: PassUnknown26 days ago
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Design purposeful classroom activities, inquiry tasks, discussion prompts, questioning chains, group work, experiments, demos, warm-ups, exit tickets, peer instruction, and interactive learning…

mingchen666/Reviva236—~839Automated safety check: PassNo licence16 days ago
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Create teacher-ready lesson plans and instructional designs for real classroom preparation.

mingchen666/Reviva236—~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence16 days ago
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Design classroom assessment, formative checks, rubrics, exit tickets, homework grading standards, diagnostic feedback, classroom observation forms, student self/peer assessment, and teaching…

mingchen666/Reviva236—~1kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence16 days ago
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Write and polish formal teaching documents for teachers, school offices,教研 and training contexts.

mingchen666/Reviva236—~871Automated safety check: PassNo licence16 days ago
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Create teacher-ready worksheets, guided learning sheets, preview sheets, class exercises, homework, layered assignments, remediation sheets, answer keys, and teacher notes.

mingchen666/Reviva236—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence16 days ago
28

Adapt a classroom task for specific learner needs while preserving the core learning objective intact.

majiayu000/claude-skill-registry6661 repo~4.6kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
29

Unpack a broad standard or competency descriptor into specific, assessable success criteria and sub-skills.

GarethManning/education-agent-skills830—~4.5kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown1 mo ago
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Analyse student work against criteria to identify specific gaps between current performance and learning objectives.

GarethManning/education-agent-skills830—~4.7kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown1 mo ago
31

Design a lesson that embeds PERMA wellbeing elements alongside academic learning objectives.

GarethManning/education-agent-skills830—~5.1kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown1 mo ago
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Online-course / workshop module deck — warm paper background + Playfair serif, persistent left sidebar of learning objectives, MCQ self-check page.

sanqiufong/slides-from-anything132—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0yesterday
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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/pm-claude-skills1.4k—~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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Build a standards-aligned K-12 lesson plan with clear objectives, a timed activity sequence, checks for understanding, and differentiation.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills1.4k—~784Automated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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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/pm-claude-skills1.4k—~667Automated safety check: PassMITyesterday
36

Design a structured lesson plan for any subject, audience, or format.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills1.4k—~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
37

Modify a lesson plan using SIOP sheltered instruction principles to support language learners across all four skills.

GarethManning/education-agent-skills830—~6.4kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown1 mo ago
38

Apply Bloom's revised taxonomy to classify learning objectives and design assessments across six cognitive levels.

asgard-ai-platform/skills241—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 mo ago
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Creates assessments with varied question types (MCQ, code-completion, debugging, projects) aligned to learning objectives with meaningful distractors based on common misconceptions.

aiskillstore/marketplace430—~4.3kAutomated safety check: PassNo licencetoday
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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/awesome-codex-plugins1.2k—~913Automated safety check: PassMITtoday
41

A specialized skill for question design and learning level analysis using Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives.

revfactory/harness-1001.3k—~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.06 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/harness-1001.3k—~1.8kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.06 mo ago
43

A learning design skill used by the curriculum-designer and content-writer agents.

revfactory/harness-1001.3k—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.06 mo ago
44

Expert Curriculum Developer with 15+ years experience in instructional design, learning objectives, course development, and educational assessment.

theneoai/awesome-skills183—~2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 mo ago
45

Expert Instructional Coach specializing in teacher development, classroom observation, reflective practice, and professional learning.

theneoai/awesome-skills183—~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 mo ago
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A world-class K-12 teacher specializing in curriculum design, student assessment, differentiated instruction, and classroom management.

theneoai/awesome-skills183—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 mo ago
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Expert Language Teacher specializing in second language acquisition, communicative language teaching, and intercultural competence.

theneoai/awesome-skills183—~1.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 mo ago
48

Expert Montessori Teacher specializing in the Montessori Method, prepared environments, self-directed learning, and sensitive periods.

theneoai/awesome-skills183—~1.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 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.