Best Education & Teaching Skills for Claude Code
Skills for lesson planning, differentiation, checks for understanding, course slides, and explainer material. Every skill below has been evaluated on six dimensions — trigger quality, structure, workflow, content, engineering, and security — with the full scorecard on its detail page.
Adapts an existing K-12 lesson (math, ELA, science, or social studies) for students at different …
Creates a Check for Understanding (CFU) for a math topic or standard: 1–3 targeted formative item…
Creates a lesson plan, student-facing materials, and observation template. Load this skill BEFORE…
Knowledge comic creator supporting multiple art styles and tones. Creates original educational co…
Outstanding engineering: nine-step gated workflow, catalogued style references with explicit progressive disclosure, batch policy with failure recovery, and a clean local-only merge script.
Helps a teacher prepare to teach an existing K-12 lesson (math / ELA / science / social studies) …
Turn a handout or lesson plan into a slide outline, then after confirmation build the full course…
Design a complete lesson plan from the topic and the class profile, with objectives, timed stages…
Trigger when: (1) User wants to create an educational/explainer video, (2) User has a vague conce…
Clean planning skill turning vague ideas into scene-by-scene specs with a three-phase workflow and useful narrative references. Lacks error handling and output verification steps.
Score comparison
How the top 8 compare across the six evaluation dimensions (0–10). Full written rationale for every score is on each skill's page.
| Skill | Overall | Trigger | Structure | Workflow | Content | Engineering | Security |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| k12-lesson-differentiation | 9.3 | 9.5 | 8.9 | 9.4 | 9.2 | 8.8 | 9.8 |
| k12-check-for-understanding | 9.2 | 9.4 | 8.9 | 9.2 | 9.1 | 8.8 | 9.7 |
| k12-lesson-plan-creation | 9.1 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 9.5 | 8.5 | 9.5 |
| baoyu-comic | 8.9 | 7.5 | 9.3 | 9.2 | 8.0 | 10.0 | 9.5 |
| k12-lesson-prep | 8.7 | 9.0 | 7.5 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 8.5 | 9.5 |
| course-slides | 8.6 | 7.5 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 8.0 | 9.5 |
| lesson-plan | 8.6 | 7.5 | 8.6 | 8.3 | 8.9 | 8.7 | 9.8 |
| manim-composer | 8.4 | 8.5 | 8.7 | 6.4 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 10.0 |
FAQ
What is an education skill for Claude Code?
A SKILL.md package that helps an agent plan a lesson, differentiate instruction, check for understanding, or produce teaching material. It activates when your request matches the situations named in its description.
Are these skills only for classroom teachers?
No. They are useful for tutors, curriculum designers, instructional coaches, and anyone producing lesson plans, course slides, or explainer material. The K-12 set is the most specific; the generic lesson and slide skills apply more broadly.
How were these skills evaluated?
Each SKILL.md was read and scored on six dimensions: trigger quality, structure, workflow, content, engineering, and security. The scores are static evaluations, not classroom trials; the written rationale is on each skill page.
Do these skills replace a teacher's judgment?
No. They produce drafts and artifacts for a teacher to review. The differentiation and check-for-understanding skills are designed to support a decision, not to make it for you.
Every skill here was scored on the same six-dimension rubric — the full scorecard with written rationale is on each skill's page. See more in the Productivity skill collection, or browse all evaluated skills.