Claude Education Skills Library

Skills

165 in the Claude listing

• Academic language sentence frame generatorGenerate tiered sentence frames for academic tasks that scaffold language production across proficiency levels.
• Adaptive hint sequence designerGenerate a cascading hint sequence for a problem type, revealing progressively without giving answers.
• Agency circles for systems actionMap control, influence, and concern after systems analysis.
• Agency scaffold generatorGenerate scaffolds that gradually increase student choice, voice, and ownership within a learning task.
• Ai claim checkerAfter any AI-generated explanation, require the learner to identify one place it could be wrong, one thing to check, and one source to consult.
• Ai expertise interrogation designerDesign a Funhouse Mirror activity where students use their own domain expertise to detect AI distortions, omissions, and overconfidence.
• Ai facilitated collaborative learning designerDesign AI-supported collaborative tasks that structure group interaction and address participation problems.
• Ai feedback design principlesAudit and redesign AI-generated feedback for pedagogical quality, timing, and learning impact.
• Ai hallucination fact check protocolDesign a fact-checking protocol for AI-generated text, extending SIFT with AI-specific adaptations for hallucination detection.
• Ai learning boundary mapperMap which elements of an assignment benefit from AI assistance vs.
• Ai output critical audit designerDesign a structured protocol for auditing AI-generated text against Ennis's six CT standards.
• Ai socratic dialogue designerDesign a multi-round questioning sequence for interrogating AI chatbot answers, tracking how responses shift and distinguishing genuine updates from sycophantic capitulation.
• Argument structure scaffold generatorGenerate argument structure scaffolds using Toulmin, PEEL, or CER frameworks for a specific claim or question.
• Aspirational systems icebergDesign the deeper patterns, structures, artefacts, and mental models needed to grow a desired event.
• Assessment design orchestratorRoutes between five assessment pathways — formative, rubric/criteria, authentic/performance, peer/self, and diagnostic — with validity and equity checks.
• Assessment validity checkerAudit a proposed assessment for construct validity, reliability, and alignment to learning objectives.
• Awe wonder experience designerDesign a moment of awe or wonder that hooks curiosity and deepens emotional engagement with content.
• Backwards design unit plannerPlan a unit using backwards design from desired outcomes through assessment evidence to learning activities.
• Belonging classroom culture designerDesign targeted interventions that strengthen belonging and inclusion for specific classroom dynamics.
• Biophilic learning environment designerRedesign a learning space using biophilic design principles to improve focus, calm, and wellbeing.
• Central historical question evaluatorEvaluate a teacher-drafted central historical question for its capacity to drive genuine historical inquiry.
• Checking for understanding protocol designerDesign a checking-for-understanding protocol with specific techniques for each lesson stage.
• Close reading skill builderBuild students' capacity to read historical documents closely — attending to word choice, tone, and rhetoric as evidence of perspective.
• Cognitive load analyserAnalyse a learning task for cognitive load problems and recommend specific design improvements.
• Cognitive tutoring architecture designerMap knowledge components and skill hierarchies for a cognitive tutoring system or adaptive learning platform.
• Coherent rubric logic builderBuild a five-level rubric with coherent logic for a learning target within a developmental band.
• Compassionate systems awareness orchestratorOrchestrate compassionate systems tools from issue or aspiration to wise action.
• Competency framework translatorTranslate an external competency framework like DigComp, GreenComp, or ISTE into classroom-ready activities.
• Competency unpackerUnpack a broad standard or competency descriptor into specific, assessable success criteria and sub-skills.
• Confidence calibration checkCapture confidence ratings before and after a learning attempt to identify overconfidence and underconfidence patterns.
• Contextualisation skill builderBuild students' capacity to place historical documents in their temporal and social context.
• Corroboration skill builderBuild students' capacity to compare accounts across multiple historical sources — identifying agreements, contradictions, and gaps.
• Coverage auditTakes a curriculum framework and a statutory or accreditation requirement list; produces a coverage table, gap summary, and CSV showing which framework content covers each requirement and where gaps exist.
• Cpa sequence designerDesign a Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract learning sequence for a mathematical concept using manipulatives.
• Criterion referenced rubric generatorGenerate a criterion-referenced rubric with descriptive performance levels for a task or objective.
• Critical thinking task designerDesign a critical thinking task targeting specific skills like evaluating evidence, identifying bias, or analysing arguments.
• Cross cultural task validity checkerCheck an educational practice or task for cultural bias, WEIRD assumptions, and cross-cultural validity.
• Culturally responsive teaching designerRedesign a lesson to centre students' cultural backgrounds, community knowledge, and lived experience.
• Curriculum crosswalkCompares two or more band-tagged frameworks and produces a framework-neutral topic matrix showing coverage and gaps across all inputs, plus an optional reference-centric PLC crosswalk document when a reference framework is supplied.
• Curriculum knowledge architecture designerMap the epistemic structure of a subject to determine knowledge types and inform curriculum sequencing.
• Developmental band system designerDesign a developmental band system mapping student growth from early childhood through upper secondary.
• Developmental band translatorTags harness-decomposed curriculum items (KUDs, LTs, criteria) with a school's developmental band metadata while preserving source voice and labels.
• Developmental progression synthesisSynthesise completed KUD charts into a developmental progression matrix and per-competency narrative sections.
• Dialogic teaching move generatorGenerate follow-up teaching moves that extend student thinking after a specific classroom response.
• Differentiation adapterAdapt a classroom task for specific learner needs while preserving the core learning objective intact.
• Digital worked example sequenceCreate an interactive digital worked example sequence with fading for online or blended delivery.
• Dilemma navigation for education designIdentify and navigate genuine dilemmas in curriculum, school, or community contexts — tensions between competing goods that cannot be solved, only navigated.
• Disciplinary ai literacy sequence designerDesign a sequence where students compare AI's handling of the same question across disciplines, developing a mental model of where AI is reliable vs.
• Disciplinary writing scaffoldCreate a writing scaffold teaching the genre conventions specific to an academic discipline.
• Discipline specific critical thinking task designerDesign discipline-specific critical thinking tasks grounded in knowledge-contingent reasoning rather than generic skills.
• Discussion protocol selectorSelect and configure a structured discussion protocol matched to the purpose, topic, and group readiness.
• Dispositional knowledge assessment designerDesign multi-informant assessment approaches for dispositional competencies like curiosity or resilience.
• Document based lesson designerDesign a complete document-based history lesson using the Reading Like a Historian four-part structure.
• Dual coding designerDesign a visual complement to verbal content using dual coding principles for stronger encoding.
• Ecological inquiry anchor designerDesign an inquiry sequence anchored in a local ecosystem that embeds science or geography curriculum content.
• Elaborative interrogation generatorGenerate elaborative interrogation prompts that deepen encoding through targeted why and how questions.
• Emergent project design scaffoldScaffold an emergent project from observed children's interests using Reggio-inspired approaches.
• Erroneous example designerDesign deliberately flawed examples that develop error-detection skills and deepen understanding.
• Error analysis protocolDesign an error analysis protocol to diagnose the root cause of student mistakes and misconceptions.
• Experiential learning cycle designerStructure a direct experience into a full learning cycle with concrete experience, reflection, and conceptual transfer.
• Explain first interrogatorRequire the learner to explain a concept in their own words before the AI evaluates or extends it.
• Explicit instruction sequence builderBuild a complete explicit instruction sequence from teacher modelling through guided practice to independent work.
• Fading managerTrack performance across sessions and reduce scaffolding as competence grows.
• Feedback quality analyserAnalyse existing written feedback for quality, specificity, actionability, and impact on student learning.
• Flow state condition designerOptimise a learning activity for flow by balancing challenge level, skill, clear goals, and immediate feedback.
• Formative assessment loop designerDesign an adaptive assessment loop where each student response triggers the next instructional move.
• Formative assessment technique selectorSelect the right formative assessment technique for a specific learning moment, purpose, and age group.
• Gap analysis from student workAnalyse student work against criteria to identify specific gaps between current performance and learning objectives.
• Goal setting protocol designerDesign a structured goal-setting protocol using SMART or implementation-intention frameworks for students.
• Hexagon complexity mapperMap a complex topic by placing factors on hexagonal tiles where adjacency signals a claimed relationship.
• Hinge question designerDesign a diagnostic hinge question that reveals whether students understand enough to move on.
• Historical document set curatorDesign a document set for a document-based lesson — selecting and sequencing sources for analytical tension around a central question.
• Historical source adapterAdapt a historical primary source for classroom use — modifying complexity and length while preserving features for sourcing, close reading, and corroboration.
• Historical thinking assessment designerDesign formative assessments that make students' historical thinking visible — revealing whether they source, close-read, contextualise, and corroborate.
• Historical thinking strategy modelling guideDesign a teacher think-aloud that models historical thinking strategies with a specific document.
• Implementation intention designerCreate if-then implementation intentions and WOOP plans for specific student behaviour change goals.
• Inclusive design orchestratorCoordinates UDL and differentiation tools through a universal-first hierarchy: barrier removal before targeted differentiation before individualised accommodation.
• Individual spacing algorithm explainerExplain and configure individual spacing algorithms using student performance data and forgetting curves.
• Instructional coaching conversation guideGenerate a coaching conversation guide with questions, protocols, and follow-up actions for a teaching focus.
• Intelligent tutoring dialogue designerScript a multi-turn tutoring dialogue with branching responses for anticipated student difficulties.
• Interdisciplinary real world connection mapperMap curriculum connections across multiple subjects for a real-world problem or authentic context.
• Interleaving unit plannerRedesign a blocked topic sequence into an interleaved plan with mixed practice across related topics.
• Kud chart authorAuthors or reviews Know/Understand/Do charts for competency-based learning targets across developmental bands.
• Kud knowledge type mapperClassify curriculum content into Know, Understand, and Do categories to align teaching and assessment approaches.
• Ladder of inference reflectionSlow down interpretation from observation to action.
• Language demand analyserAnalyse the language demands of a classroom task to identify barriers for EAL and multilingual learners.
• Learning analytics interpretation guideInterpret learning analytics data and translate dashboard findings into actionable teaching decisions.
• Learning progression builderBuild a learning progression showing prerequisite-to-mastery steps for a target skill or understanding.
• Learning target authoring guideAuthor learning targets for a competency across developmental bands with precise, observable progression language.
• Lesson observation protocol designerDesign a focused lesson observation protocol with specific look-fors and evidence collection methods.
• Lesson opening designerDesign a lesson opening that activates prior knowledge and connects previous learning to today's content.
• Lesson study cycle designerDesign a complete lesson study cycle from research question through collaborative planning to research lesson.
• Leverage and response designDesign a wise systems intervention from an existing analysis.
• Media literacy deconstruction protocolDesign a media deconstruction protocol analysing persuasion, bias, or representation in media texts.
• Mental model mapperSurface beliefs, assumptions, stories, and values shaping a system.
• Metacognitive monitoring ai contextsDesign metacognitive checkpoints that prevent AI-assisted learning from bypassing genuine understanding.
• Metacognitive prompt libraryBuild a library of metacognitive prompts targeting planning, monitoring, or evaluation for a specific task.
• Mixed age learning task designerDesign a learning task where mixed-age students work together with mutual benefit for all age groups.
• Motivation diagnostic task redesignDiagnose motivation problems in a task using self-determination theory and redesign for autonomy, competence, and relatedness.
• Multi perspective decision wheelStructure a decision or design challenge through multiple perspectives before committing to action.
• Outdoor learning sequence designerDesign a structured outdoor learning sequence embedding curriculum objectives in an available outdoor space.
• Panel reviewSeven-role depersonalised panel review of framework artefacts (KUD, criterion bank, LT definition, crosswalk, scope-and-sequence) in sequential-isolation mode.
• Pedagogical content knowledge developerDevelop pedagogical content knowledge for a topic by surfacing common misconceptions and effective representations.
• Perma based lesson designerDesign a lesson that embeds PERMA wellbeing elements alongside academic learning objectives.
• Perspective taking designerDesign structured perspective-taking activities with anti-projection guardrails.
• Phenomenon based unit anchorAnchor a multidisciplinary unit in a real-world phenomenon that requires multiple subject lenses to understand.
• Place based curriculum orchestratorPresent pathway options and orchestrate place-based curriculum design from a local place, curriculum requirement, or community issue.
• Place based inquiry anchorAnchor curriculum learning in a specific local place with connections to community, culture, and identity.
• Practice problem sequence designerGenerate a scaffolded sequence of practice problems with graduated difficulty and strategic variability.
• Prepared environment designerRedesign a classroom as a prepared environment optimised for independent learning, calm transitions, and material access.
• Productive failure desirable difficulty designerRedesign a direct instruction sequence to include productive struggle before the explanation phase.
• Productive failure protocolStage exploration before instruction on complex problems.
• Professional development session designerDesign a professional development session using adult learning principles with active teacher engagement.
• Progressive hint ladderProvide graduated assistance from abstract conceptual nudge to concrete procedural step, with reflection required before each escalation.
• Project brief designerDesign a project-based learning brief with a driving question, milestones, and assessment criteria.
• Prompt literacy sequence designerDesign a learning sequence teaching prompt quality — comparing vague vs.
• Reading comprehension strategy selectorSelect and sequence reading comprehension strategies matched to a specific text's challenges and demands.
• Reflective practice prompt generatorGenerate structured reflection prompts for a specific teaching experience or professional learning challenge.
• Regenerative project design orchestratorPresent project-design pathway options and orchestrate regenerative projects using backwards design, PBL, SEEDS, compassionate systems action, or civic/service pathways.
• Reggio documentation protocolDesign a pedagogical documentation protocol for making children's learning processes visible and shareable.
• Restorative practice protocol designerDesign a restorative practice protocol for addressing harm, rebuilding trust, and restoring relationships.
• Retrieval practice generatorGenerate retrieval practice questions at varied difficulty levels for a topic or concept.
• Retrieve first gateBefore any explanation or answer, require the learner to produce a free-recall attempt and confidence rating.
• Ruler emotional literacy sequenceDesign a RULER emotional literacy sequence for recognising, understanding, labelling, expressing, and regulating emotions.
• Scaffolded task modifierModify a classroom task with language scaffolds that preserve cognitive demand for EAL learners.
• Scope and sequence designerDesign a scope and sequence showing vertical and horizontal curriculum coherence across a programme or year.
• Scoping for transformative learning inquiryDefine the scope and purpose of a complex inquiry before mapping or futures work begins.
• Seeds regenerative inquiry cycleDesign a SEEDS regenerative inquiry cycle connecting place-based learning to ecological awareness for young learners.
• Self determined project design protocolStructure a student's self-determined project with mentoring checkpoints, competency alignment, and reflection.
• Self efficacy builder sequenceDesign a mastery experience sequence that systematically builds student confidence in a skill they avoid.
• Self explanation prompt designerCreate self-explanation prompts that deepen understanding of worked examples, texts, or diagrams.
• Self regulation scaffold generatorGenerate scaffolds supporting student self-regulation across planning, monitoring, and evaluation phases.
• Service learning project designerDesign a service-learning project connecting genuine community need with embedded curriculum learning.
• Sheltered instruction lesson modifierModify a lesson plan using SIOP sheltered instruction principles to support language learners across all four skills.
• Single point rubric designerDesign a single-point rubric with one criterion and open columns for evidence.
• Socratic questioning sequence generatorGenerate a Socratic questioning sequence that develops conceptual understanding through guided inquiry.
• Source credibility evaluation protocolDesign a source evaluation protocol using lateral reading and credibility checks for digital information.
• Sourcing skill builderBuild students' capacity to interrogate a historical source before reading — asking who authored it, when, why, and what this means for reliability.
• Spaced practice schedulerDesign a spaced retrieval schedule for any topic list and timeline.
• Srl session wrapperWrap a learning session in a plan → monitor → reflect cycle.
• Stuck and error diagnosis coachWhen a learner gets something wrong or feels stuck, require them to diagnose the problem before receiving help.
• Study strategy selectorSelect evidence-based study strategies matched to material type, learning goal, and student habits.
• Systems awareness icebergMap a current event below the surface into patterns, structures, and mental models.
• Systems wellbeing impact mapperMap systemic forces shaping a wellbeing concern without individualising the problem.
• Teach back evaluatorThe learner teaches the concept to the AI, which plays a curious novice peer and identifies gaps through authentic questions.
• Teacher inquiry cycle designerDesign a practitioner inquiry cycle from research question through data collection to evidence-informed action.
• Technological pedagogical content knowledge developerDevelop TPACK for integrating a specific technology or AI tool into subject teaching with pedagogical alignment.
• Text complexity analyserAnalyse text complexity across quantitative, qualitative, and reader-task dimensions with scaffolding recommendations.
• Think aloud script generatorScript a teacher think-aloud demonstrating expert reasoning processes for a specific task.
• Three horizons learning transition mapperMap a scoped topic across three coexisting horizons — current system under strain (H1), preferred future (H3), and transition innovations sorted as H2+ or H2- — to understand change dynamics and identify responsible next actions.
• Three part lesson designerDesign a Montessori three-period lesson for introducing concepts through concrete materials and naming.
• Transfer bridgeAfter the learner demonstrates understanding of a concept, present near-transfer and far-transfer challenges.
• Trauma informed practice designerDesign trauma-informed classroom practices that prioritise safety, predictability, connection, and regulation.
• Ubuntu collective knowledge task designerDesign learning tasks built on Ubuntu philosophy emphasising collective knowledge-building and mutual responsibility.
• Udl barrier anticipatorPredicts access barriers in a learning task before delivery, given a learner variability profile.
• Udl lesson auditorAudits an existing lesson against UDL's three principles — engagement, representation, and action/expression.
• Udl options designerGenerates multiple means of engagement, representation, and action/expression for a given learning goal.
• Unassisted evidence checkpointAfter scaffolded practice, run an unassisted check with no AI help.
• Uninterrupted work cycle designerDesign an uninterrupted work cycle with choice-based activities structured within a realistic time block.
• Variation theory task designerDesign a variation theory task using contrast, separation, and fusion to teach critical features of a concept.
• Vocabulary tiering toolTier vocabulary from a text or topic into everyday, academic, and technical categories with teaching priorities.
• Weekly agency reviewReview the week using accumulated session evidence — retrieval rates, hint depths, calibration accuracy, transfer and unassisted results.
• Wellbeing learning connection mapperMap evidence-based connections between a wellbeing initiative and specific academic learning outcomes.
• Worked example fading designerDesign a worked example fading sequence from fully worked examples through to independent practice.
• Worked example to problem solving transition designerDesign the transition from worked examples to independent problem-solving using expertise-reversal principles.