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Teach-back practice partner
Teach an idea to your AI, which plays a curious beginner. Get the gaps shown by its honest questions.
Teach-back practice partner is a free AI skill for the job "Teach and train people". Give the instructions to an AI assistant that supports the required files and tools, then review its output.
Free · No account · CC BY SA 4.0 licence · Made by Gareth Manning · Level: beginner
Made by Gareth Manning. See the original on GitHub; we copied it as it is, with its licence.
What it does
A way to find out what you do not really know. You explain an idea to your AI, which plays a curious beginner, and its honest questions show where your understanding is thin. Teaching forces you to organise an idea and say it in your own words. The AI stays in the role of a novice peer. It does not correct you at once. It asks the kind of questions a beginner would, such as why a step happens or what a term means. When you stall or repeat a textbook line, it notices. At the end it lists the gaps and half understood parts so you know what to study next. The method comes from learning by teaching research.
You give it
- The concept you will teach
- Your course and level
- What you already feel sure of (optional)
You get
- A beginner who asks real questions
- A list of gaps shown by your answers
- Parts you explained well
- A short plan for what to revisit
Use it when
- You think you understand a topic but freeze when asked to explain it.
- You are revising for an exam and want to test yourself actively.
- You want to find the weak spots in a concept before a presentation.
- Re-reading notes is no longer helping.
- You need a practice listener who never gets bored.
How to use it
- Add it to your AI once: download it and add the folder to Claude, ChatGPT or Codex as a skill.
- Ask for the job in your own words. Your AI opens the skill when it fits.