Teaching Notes Writing

This is a portable writing skill: usable standalone, and loaded by openpress-create-pages when page content is learner-facing teaching material (handouts, worksheets, study guides, tutorial chapters). openpress-create-pages owns the trigger and conflict-resolution rules.

Teaching notes are for learners who are still building the mental model. This skill provides suggested content skeletons, explanation strategies, examples, practice ideas, and answer-flow guidance. It does not mandate one rigid chapter template.

Responsibilities

• Start from the learner's likely mental model.
• Compare nearby ideas before introducing formal rules.
• Show procedures step by step with visible state changes.
• Put reasons, warnings, and interpretation in prose rather than overloading figures.
• Suggest practice surfaces that match the chapter content.
• Put answers after the learner has had a chance to try.
• Suggest when a structure, relationship, or state change should become a diagram; use openpress-diagram-drawing for the actual diagram semantics.

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