Throughout the process teachers provide guidance and direction allowing the child to progress through at their own pace as they come to conclusions and observations on the activities they perform. The mixed-age classrooms allows the older children to act as mentors and guides to their younger classmates (similar to cross-functional teams consisting of senior and junior members). The overlap seems to be undeniable the Montessori circle time relates directly to a Daily Stand-up no one assigns tasks they are voluntarily selected by the child to play and learn (as do team members during the sprint planning meeting ideally). story boards to epic, theme creations, and poker planning) The closest comparison in Scrum is the learning and discussion that occurs during planning phases (i.e. Montessori uses a "discovery" model, where students learn concepts from working with materials rather than by direct instruction.Montessori focuses on children having uninterrupted blocks of work time, while in Scrum, sprints/iterations exist to time box activities and allow focused effort on delivering key functionality.Within the Montessori program, students choose activities from within a prescribed range of options while in Scrum, tasks are picked up voluntarily by team members as they complete previous tasks.In Agile, this equates to cross-functional teams of both senior and junior developers and analysts. Montessori is built on having mixed-age classrooms, with classrooms for children aged 3 to 5 or 3 to 6 years old being the most common.The more Maya and I discussed, I drew the following comparisons between Scrum and Montessori: Similar to a Scrum Master in Agile, there are no teachers in Montessori, but rather guides and mentors. Activities are sometimes set by the teachers to help guide the kids on daily tasks that need to be completed or require further attention. Maya describes her afternoon ritual of sitting "criss-cross apple sauce in a circle" as an key activity in which they discuss important events and activities that they later focus on during the day. Maria Montessori, who was struck by how quickly children absorbed knowledge from their surroundings, the goals of the Montessori philosophy is to foster a child's natural inclination to learn, where teachers guide rather than instruct, by allowing the children to pick activities that meet their interests, needs and developmental level. The Montessori program is an innovative, child centered approach to education.
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While walking through her classroom it also occurred to me how similar her day-to-day activities within a kindergarten are to my day-to-day job of implementing an Agile Software Development Processes. I was impressed at how effective the Montessori program is at enabling children to learn. She has now spent a couple of years in the program and after spending time in her classroom today at the "celebration of learning", where in Maya shows us her classroom, the activities she works on, etc. This weekend I spent a significant amount of time discussing with my daughter, Maya, her Montessori school program and understanding the specifics of what they do every day. "Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world." - Maria Montessori
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