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What does the research say about multi-age grouping for infants, toddlers and preschoolers? [1]

BRIEFing NOTE
Author: 
Childcare Resource and Research Unit
Source: 
Childcare Resource and Research Unit
Format: 
Fact sheet
Publication Date: 
12 Feb 2014
AVAILABILITY
BRIEFing NOTE in pdf [2]

This BRIEFing NOTE is about multi-age grouping (also called mixed-age or family groupings) in early childhood programs. It is written to inform the dialogue about a proposal by the Ontario government to introduce regulations for multi-age grouping models in the province. It provides details and context for the proposals, briefly reviews pertinent research literature on multi-age grouping and examines how multi-age settings are regulated in other jurisdictions. The importance of ratios, group sizes and ECE training in multi-age grouping is explored.

Related link: 
CRRU BRIEFing NOTE: Proposed changes to child care regulations - Ontario 2014 [3]
Region: 
Ontario [4]
Tags: 
quality [5]
legislation and regulation [6]
curricula and pedagogy [7]
infants/toddlers [8]

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[1] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/research-policy-practice/14/02/what-does-research-say-about-multi-age-grouping-infants [2] https://childcarecanada.org/sites/default/files/Multi-age_BN_Feb_12_14_0.pdf [3] https://childcarecanada.org/publications/briefing-notes/14/01/proposed-changes-child-care-regulations-ontario-2014 [4] https://childcarecanada.org/taxonomy/term/7856 [5] https://childcarecanada.org/category/tags/quality [6] https://childcarecanada.org/category/tags/legislation-and-regulation [7] https://childcarecanada.org/category/tags/curricula-and-pedagogy [8] https://childcarecanada.org/category/tags/infantstoddlers