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Claude Skills by GarethManning
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- Explicit Instruction Sequence BuilderBuild a complete explicit instruction sequence from teacher modelling through guided practice to independent work. Use when teaching new skills, procedures, or concepts through direct instruction.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Lesson Opening DesignerDesign a lesson opening that activates prior knowledge and connects previous learning to today's content. Use when planning lesson starters, retrieval openers, or advance organisers.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Practice Problem Sequence DesignerGenerate a scaffolded sequence of practice problems with graduated difficulty and strategic variability. Use when creating worksheets, homework sets, or independent practice materials.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Think Aloud Script GeneratorScript a teacher think-aloud demonstrating expert reasoning processes for a specific task. Use when modelling problem-solving, writing, reading comprehension, or analytical processes.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Cpa Sequence DesignerDesign a Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract learning sequence for a mathematical concept using manipulatives. Use when teaching maths through Singapore method or when students struggle with abstraction.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Cross Cultural Task Validity CheckerCheck an educational practice or task for cultural bias, WEIRD assumptions, and cross-cultural validity. Use when adapting resources for diverse contexts or questioning universal claims.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Culturally Responsive Teaching DesignerRedesign a lesson to centre students' cultural backgrounds, community knowledge, and lived experience. Use when making curriculum relevant and inclusive for diverse student populations.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Emergent Project Design ScaffoldScaffold an emergent project from observed children's interests using Reggio-inspired approaches. Use when following children's fascinations into deeper inquiry in early years or primary settings.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Phenomenon Based Unit AnchorAnchor a multidisciplinary unit in a real-world phenomenon that requires multiple subject lenses to understand. Use when designing integrated or phenomenon-based units across disciplines.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Place Based Inquiry AnchorAnchor curriculum learning in a specific local place with connections to community, culture, and identity. Use when connecting academic content to students' local environment and heritage.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Reggio Documentation ProtocolDesign a pedagogical documentation protocol for making children's learning processes visible and shareable. Use when documenting learning, communicating with families, or planning next steps.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Ubuntu Collective Knowledge Task DesignerDesign learning tasks built on Ubuntu philosophy emphasising collective knowledge-building and mutual responsibility. Use when fostering collaboration that values community over individual competition.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Variation Theory Task DesignerDesign a variation theory task using contrast, separation, and fusion to teach critical features of a concept. Use when students confuse similar concepts or fail to discern key distinctions.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Central Historical Question EvaluatorEvaluate a teacher-drafted central historical question for its capacity to drive genuine historical inquiry. Use when assessing whether a question will generate real evidence-weighing or produce shallow responses.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Close Reading Skill BuilderBuild students' capacity to read historical documents closely — attending to word choice, tone, and rhetoric as evidence of perspective. Use when students summarise sources without analysing language.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Contextualisation Skill BuilderBuild students' capacity to place historical documents in their temporal and social context. Use when students read sources without considering what was happening at the time, or know the context but don't deploy it.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Corroboration Skill BuilderBuild students' capacity to compare accounts across multiple historical sources — identifying agreements, contradictions, and gaps. Use when students treat individual documents as complete answers rather than partial perspectives.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Document Based Lesson DesignerDesign a complete document-based history lesson using the Reading Like a Historian four-part structure. Use when planning a primary source inquiry lesson or converting a textbook lesson into document-based investigation.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Historical Document Set CuratorDesign a document set for a document-based lesson — selecting and sequencing sources for analytical tension around a central question. Use when assembling sources for a new lesson or when an existing set produces flat responses.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Historical Source AdapterAdapt a historical primary source for classroom use — modifying complexity and length while preserving features for sourcing, close reading, and corroboration. Use when a primary source is too complex for the target age group.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Historical Thinking Assessment DesignerDesign formative assessments that make students' historical thinking visible — revealing whether they source, close-read, contextualise, and corroborate. Use when assessing historical thinking skills or planning a diagnostic.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Historical Thinking Strategy Modelling GuideDesign a teacher think-aloud that models historical thinking strategies with a specific document. Use when planning explicit strategy instruction or when students follow a protocol without understanding the underlying reasoning.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Sourcing Skill BuilderBuild students' capacity to interrogate a historical source before reading — asking who authored it, when, why, and what this means for reliability. Use when students read documents without attending to authorship.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Udl Barrier AnticipatorPredicts access barriers in a learning task before delivery, given a learner variability profile. Distinguishes between barriers addressable through design and those requiring specialist support.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Udl Lesson AuditorAudits an existing lesson against UDL's three principles — engagement, representation, and action/expression. Identifies specific access barriers and suggests concrete modifications ranked by impact.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Udl Options DesignerGenerates multiple means of engagement, representation, and action/expression for a given learning goal. Produces specific, practical alternatives — not generic options — and recommends the highest-impact single change.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Argument Structure Scaffold GeneratorGenerate argument structure scaffolds using Toulmin, PEEL, or CER frameworks for a specific claim or question. Use when teaching argumentative or analytical writing across any subject.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Critical Thinking Task DesignerDesign a critical thinking task targeting specific skills like evaluating evidence, identifying bias, or analysing arguments. Use when embedding critical analysis into subject lessons.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Disciplinary Writing ScaffoldCreate a writing scaffold teaching the genre conventions specific to an academic discipline. Use when students write lab reports, historical essays, or other discipline-specific text types.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Media Literacy Deconstruction ProtocolDesign a media deconstruction protocol analysing persuasion, bias, or representation in media texts. Use when teaching students to critically read advertisements, news, or social media content.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Reading Comprehension Strategy SelectorSelect and sequence reading comprehension strategies matched to a specific text's challenges and demands. Use when students struggle with a text or need targeted reading support.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Source Credibility Evaluation ProtocolDesign a source evaluation protocol using lateral reading and credibility checks for digital information. Use when students need to evaluate websites, online sources, or social media claims.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Text Complexity AnalyserAnalyse text complexity across quantitative, qualitative, and reader-task dimensions with scaffolding recommendations. Use when selecting texts, assessing readability, or planning reading support.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Cognitive Load AnalyserAnalyse a learning task for cognitive load problems and recommend specific design improvements. Use when tasks overwhelm students, instructions feel complex, or materials need simplifying.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Dual Coding DesignerDesign a visual complement to verbal content using dual coding principles for stronger encoding. Use when creating slides, diagrams, posters, or visual explanations of complex concepts.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Elaborative Interrogation GeneratorGenerate elaborative interrogation prompts that deepen encoding through targeted why and how questions. Use when students memorise without understanding or need deeper processing of content.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Feedback Quality AnalyserAnalyse existing written feedback for quality, specificity, actionability, and impact on student learning. Use when reviewing teacher or peer feedback to improve feedback practices.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Interleaving Unit PlannerRedesign a blocked topic sequence into an interleaved plan with mixed practice across related topics. Use when planning units, homework schedules, or revision programmes.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Retrieval Practice GeneratorGenerate retrieval practice questions at varied difficulty levels for a topic or concept. Use when creating quiz starters, revision activities, or low-stakes testing materials.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Spaced Practice SchedulerDesign a spaced retrieval schedule for any topic list and timeline. Use when planning units, term sequences, or revision programmes.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Worked Example Fading DesignerDesign a worked example fading sequence from fully worked examples through to independent practice. Use when teaching procedures, algorithms, or multi-step processes to novice learners.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Mixed Age Learning Task DesignerDesign a learning task where mixed-age students work together with mutual benefit for all age groups. Use when planning cross-age tutoring, vertical grouping, or multi-year group activities.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Prepared Environment DesignerRedesign a classroom as a prepared environment optimised for independent learning, calm transitions, and material access. Use when classroom layout hinders independence or self-directed work.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Three Part Lesson DesignerDesign a Montessori three-period lesson for introducing concepts through concrete materials and naming. Use when teaching vocabulary, classifications, or concepts through hands-on materials.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Uninterrupted Work Cycle DesignerDesign an uninterrupted work cycle with choice-based activities structured within a realistic time block. Use when planning Montessori-style independent work periods or extended choice time.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Assessment Design OrchestratorRoutes between five assessment pathways — formative, rubric/criteria, authentic/performance, peer/self, and diagnostic — with validity and equity checks. Use when a teacher needs help choosing how to assess.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Coherent Rubric Logic BuilderBuild a five-level rubric with coherent logic for a learning target within a developmental band. Use for Manning methodology programmes where Competent = success. For general curriculum rubrics, use criterion-referenced-rubric-generator instead.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Compassionate Systems Awareness OrchestratorOrchestrate compassionate systems tools from issue or aspiration to wise action. Use when a class needs a complete inquiry workflow.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Developmental Band System DesignerDesign a developmental band system mapping student growth from early childhood through upper secondary. Use when building competency-based curriculum architecture for a school or programme.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959
- Developmental Progression SynthesisSynthesise completed KUD charts into a developmental progression matrix and per-competency narrative sections. Use when you need a programme-level view of how knowledge, understanding, and performance develop across bands.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 959