Taro’s Origami Studio licenses its unique teaching method, “Taro’s Origami Method,” to those interested in teaching origami professionally. Instead of teaching using the traditional method, which draws few connections between models, Taro’s Origami Method stresses the fundamentals, grounding students with key skills in the "basic folds" that they can apply to folding any model with care and precision, read even the most complex diagrams, and even create their own unique models. This is where Taro’s Origami Teaching Method excels. Built around the kyu (mastery level) system, it relies on progression through demonstration of mastery in the same way that many popular martial arts do. Karate awards different colored belts to represent a student’s current level, or kyu. We have classified the basic folds one can make with a piece of paper as kata (the Japanese word for “form”) according to difficulty so that students can logically and gradually advance to more complex and varied models.