Skill Curriculum Schema
A worksheet for turning a target capability into prerequisites, practice tasks, evidence, and review checkpoints. Companion to Build a skill curriculum from outcomes, not a pile of links.
1. Target capability
Write it as a task, with a concrete input, action, and checkable output — not a topic.
- Target capability:
- What “done” looks like, in one sentence:
- How you will know you achieved it (the artifact a stranger could judge):
2. Prerequisite chain (verified)
| Prerequisite | Confidence (high/med/low) | Source used to verify it | Verified? |
|---|---|---|---|
| [ ] | |||
| [ ] | |||
| [ ] | |||
| [ ] |
- No named certification, qualification, or standards body in this table was accepted without independent confirmation it exists (awarding body’s own site, a national register, or ENIC-NARIC for cross-border recognition).
3. Practice tasks
One row per task. Every task must produce an artifact — not notes, not hours logged.
| Task | Artifact it produces | Definition of “done” | Time budget | Safety-supervised needed? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y / N | ||||
| Y / N | ||||
| Y / N | ||||
| Y / N | ||||
| Y / N |
- Any task marked “safety-supervised needed” (electrical, medical/first-aid, vehicles or machinery, height, chemicals, structural work) has a plan for in-person, qualified supervision before it is attempted unsupervised.
4. Review checkpoints
| Checkpoint # | After which tasks | Reviewer (a person, not the model) | What they will check | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| 2 | ||||
| 3 |
- At least one checkpoint is scheduled before you consider the curriculum complete.
- The reviewer has agreed in advance to give honest, critical feedback — not encouragement.
Prompt to draft a first pass
Target capability: [your sentence from section 1]
Draft a prerequisite chain: what has to be true — skills, concepts,
tools, access — before someone could reasonably attempt this task.
For each prerequisite, mark your confidence as high, medium, or low,
and name the type of source that would confirm it.
Then propose three to five practice tasks. Each must produce a
checkable artifact and state its definition of "done." Flag any task
that should not be attempted without in-person supervision, and say
why.
Do not invent a certification, qualification, or standards body. If
you are not certain one exists under a given name, say so explicitly.
Before you trust this plan
- Every prerequisite has a real source, not just the model’s confidence.
- Every practice task has a concrete artifact and a definition of “done.”
- Every safety-relevant task has a supervision plan, not just a written guide.
- At least one review checkpoint is scheduled with a named person.