Most students switch off around minute ten, and you usually find out a week later when the test comes back. This course shows you how to run a classroom the way Agile teams run projects, so you catch that drift while the lesson is still happening.
Teach Forward adapts Scrum for the classroom you actually have: fixed curriculum, 45-minute periods, thirty students, no extra budget.
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WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO ON MONDAY
- Run a five-minute whole-class check-in that surfaces who is stuck before the period ends
- Break a unit into short sprints that fit a normal timetable instead of fighting it
- Put work on a visible board so students track their own progress and stop waiting on you
- Rewrite your Definition of Done for a classroom where every student has AI in their pocket
- Design project-based learning that finishes on time, with a plan you can defend to a principal
WHEN TO USE IT, AND WHEN NOT TO
Scrum is not a replacement for teaching. The course is specific about which lessons benefit from it, which ones do not, and what breaks if you apply it to the wrong material. You get the timing and reasoning, not just a list of techniques.
WHY IT WORKS
Underneath the practices sit a few ideas from learning science: retrieval beats rereading, spacing beats cramming, and feedback close to the moment of confusion is worth more than feedback a week later. Once you understand those, you can invent your own classroom methods instead of copying mine.
WHAT YOU END UP WITH
A teacher who can look at any new method, tool, or trend and ask one question: does this make students retrieve, spaced out, with feedback? If yes, try it. If no, it is decoration. That question outlives this course.
WHO THIS IS FOR
School teachers, university faculty, online instructors, and education administrators. No Agile or Scrum background needed. Everything is explained from zero.
INSIDE THE COURSE
Module 1: The starting point, communication foundations, and how learning actually works
Module 2: Agile and Scrum adapted for education
Module 3: Curriculum development with Scrum
Module 4: Project-based learning
Module 5: Student engagement, Scrum events and artifacts, the Definition of Done in the age of AI
56 video lessons, around 9 hours. 6 quizzes, 3 practical assignments, 4 downloadable resources.
ABOUT ME
I am Dejan Majkic. I have spent 20 years in IT leadership, currently as CIO at the Tax Administration of Republika Srpska, and I teach online at whatisscrum.org, where more than 140,000 students have taken my Scrum and Agile courses. Teach Forward is where that work meets the classroom.
LINKS
Course: https://www.whatisscrum.org/teach-forward/
More courses: https://www.whatisscrum.org
If you try one thing from this video in your next lesson, tell me in the comments how it went. I read them.
