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

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BRIEFing NOTE
Author: 
Childcare Resource and Research Unit
Format: 
Fact sheet
Publication Date: 
12 Feb 2014

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.

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