Objectives first, evidence second, activities last
After Wiggins and McTighe. Each objective has a measurable verb at a stated Bloom level. A script checks that every objective has evidence and activities.
Designs every syllabus
Academy / The Tao
The Tao · How people learn at the Academy
The way we teach
Tao means the way. These are the learning principles behind every Majlis Academy programme, and the rules we keep while we build and run them.
01 · The Tao
We start from what people must do, then design back to the lesson
Six principles from learning science govern every programme. Each one has a check in the factory, so the principle survives production at speed.
Short units, deliberate pacing, no extraneous load
Cognitive Load Theory and Mayer's multimedia principles. Content comes in 6–12 minute micro-lessons with retrieval breaks.
Audits slides, labs and media
Practice on cases from your own sector
Branching cases from banking, telco and government. Role-plays, jigsaws, debates, and ArchiMate and Wardley-mapping exercises.
Classroom, online and hybrid
Learners know the purpose, task and criteria
TILT assessments, calibrated rubrics and peer review. Labs use deterministic graders, so the same answer always gets the same result.
Fair, repeatable evidence
Cohorts learn from each other
We build teaching, social and cognitive presence. Clear norms, onboarding, weekly prompts and wrap-up digests keep a cohort active.
Online and hybrid delivery
Technical text in Simplified Technical English
Learner-facing material follows ASD-STE100: one instruction per sentence, verb first, one word for one meaning. Framework terms stay exact.
Clear for every first language
Decide what they must do. Then teach to it.
02 · Principles
Six rules hold the system together
The rules are not strict procedures. They are the organising principles that every programme, team and tool keeps, from the first meeting to the hand-over.
Build capability inside, do not rent it
Every engagement ends with your people running the Brain, the skills and the gates. We plan the hand-over on day one.
Outcome · client owns its training capability
Decide with the people who do the work
Sponsors, architects, risk and learners shape each programme in one room. Equal voices, one shared question.
Applied in · scoping and plan approval (D2)
Start from the capability gap
We ask what people must do differently before we write a slide. The objectives come from that answer.
Applied in · backward design
One instruction per sentence
Learner text follows ASD-STE100. Framework terms stay exact: BIAN, ODA, eTOM, SID, TOGAF, ArchiMate.
Applied in · gate G3
Draw the real shape of each framework
Architectures in ArchiMate, strategy in Wardley maps, decisions in DMN. A picture people can check, not a metaphor.
Applied in · every visual asset
Every fact has a source and a review date
Content lives in Git as OKF concepts. A change in the world finds every package it affects.
Applied in · gates G1 and G5
G1 to G5 are the quality gates and D1 to D5 the human decisions. See them in the method.
Work with us
Start with one stream and one pilot
Tell us the capability your teams need. We propose a first package, the team set-up and the path to run it in-house.