Montessori and traditional education programs reportedly differ in several ways, including physical environment, instructional methodology, and classroom attitude. For
example, Montessori classrooms employ an open-concept in which desks are arranged in “rafts” to promote individual and smallgroup learning and students’ age range across a three years, whereas traditional classrooms have desks oriented in one direction for whole-group instruction and consist of same grade students. In Montessori classrooms, students typically spend three to four hours per day in self-selected individual and small-group work and spend less than one hour per day in whole-group instruction . This is in contrast to traditional classrooms where students follow teacher-directed work . In addition, traditional education programs have been identified as placing greater emphasis on dispensing and delivering information .