Socratic Teaching Scaffolds

Turns teaching moments into structured learning progressions using question ladders, misconception detectors, and progressive scaffolding removal. You get diagnostic questions to assess understanding, then build sequences from simple to complex with explicit fading strategies across five support levels. Works well when onboarding teammates, explaining technical concepts, or catching faulty mental models through contradiction. The workflow pushes you to design the question ladder upfront rather than winging it, and the Feynman progression approach (analogy to informal to formal) beats just dumping explanations. Honestly most useful when you catch yourself about to over-explain something instead of letting someone work through it with guided discovery.

Install to Claude Code

npx -y skills add lyndonkl/claude --skill socratic-teaching-scaffolds --agent claude-code