curriculum-reviewer
Comprehensively reviews curriculum materials for quality, consistency, and effectiveness. Use when the user asks to review content, check quality, audit materials, or ensure curriculum meets standards. Provides detailed feedback and improvement recommendations.
When & Why to Use This Skill
The Curriculum Reviewer is a sophisticated AI agent designed to audit and optimize educational content for pedagogical excellence and structural consistency. By utilizing specialized sub-agents for lesson planning, slide design, and assessment building, it provides a comprehensive quality assurance framework. This skill ensures that learning objectives are met, materials are engaging, and all educational resources—from markdown files to presentation decks—adhere to professional standards and best practices in instructional design.
Use Cases
- Comprehensive Curriculum Audit: Reviewing an entire semester's worth of materials to ensure learning objectives, content, and assessments are perfectly aligned and pedagogically sound.
- Instructional Design Optimization: Evaluating lesson plans for realistic timing, effective differentiation strategies, and high-quality hands-on activities to improve student engagement.
- Visual and Structural Polish: Auditing presentation slides for clarity and design consistency while ensuring GitHub-hosted materials have professional markdown formatting and navigation.
- Assessment Validation: Checking rubrics and performance tasks for fairness, clarity, and direct alignment with teaching goals to ensure accurate measurement of student success.
- Automated Quality Control: Identifying inconsistencies in terminology, voice, and formatting across multiple modules before publishing educational content to a wider audience.
| name | curriculum-reviewer |
|---|---|
| description | Comprehensively reviews curriculum materials for quality, consistency, and effectiveness. Use when the user asks to review content, check quality, audit materials, or ensure curriculum meets standards. Provides detailed feedback and improvement recommendations. |
| allowed-tools | Read, Edit, Glob, Task |
Curriculum Reviewer Skill
This skill comprehensively reviews educational materials for quality, pedagogical soundness, and consistency.
When to Use
Use this skill when the user:
- Asks to review curriculum or lesson materials
- Wants quality assurance on educational content
- Requests feedback on teaching materials
- Needs consistency check across multiple lessons
- Wants to audit materials before publishing
- Asks for improvement recommendations
What This Skill Does
Identifies Scope of review:
- Entire curriculum
- Specific class or lesson
- Specific material type (lessons, slides, assessments)
- Particular aspects (pedagogy, formatting, alignment)
Invokes Multiple Subagents for comprehensive review:
lesson-planner subagent reviews:
- Learning objectives alignment
- Pedagogical soundness
- Timing and pacing realism
- Differentiation strategies
- Hands-on activity quality
- Assessment alignment with objectives
slide-designer subagent reviews:
- Slide clarity and visual design
- One-idea-per-slide principle
- Formatting consistency
- Engagement elements
- Presenter notes quality
assessment-builder subagent reviews:
- Rubric clarity and fairness
- Criteria alignment with objectives
- Performance level descriptions
- Example quality and usefulness
- Student-friendly language
github-stylist subagent reviews:
- Markdown formatting consistency
- Professional appearance
- Navigation and linking
- README completeness
- Overall polish
Creates Comprehensive Review Report with:
- Strengths Identified: What's working well
- Areas for Improvement: Specific issues found
- Recommendations: Concrete suggestions for fixes
- Priority Levels: Critical vs. nice-to-have improvements
- Consistency Issues: Patterns across materials
- Alignment Check: Objectives → content → assessment
Offers Action Plan:
- Prioritized list of improvements
- Option to apply automated fixes
- Suggestions for manual edits
Review Criteria
Pedagogical Quality:
- Clear, measurable learning objectives
- Age-appropriate content and examples
- Effective differentiation strategies
- Authentic, hands-on activities
- Aligned assessments
Content Quality:
- Accurate information
- Relevant, current examples
- Clear explanations
- Logical progression
- Complete materials
Consistency:
- Formatting uniformity
- Style consistency
- Voice and tone
- Terminology usage
- Visual presentation
Usability:
- Ready-to-teach materials
- Clear instructions
- Appropriate timing
- Necessary resources listed
- Student-facing clarity
Output Structure
Review reports include:
- Executive Summary: Overview of findings
- Detailed Findings by category
- Specific Examples of issues
- Recommendations with priority
- Consistency Analysis across materials
- Action Items checklist
Example Usage
User: "Review all the Class 1 materials and make sure everything is high quality"
This skill will conduct a comprehensive review and provide detailed feedback with recommendations.