Last update : 2010/01/06

Quebec Multiage Association: A support for Early Childhood Multiage Education

The idea of an association devoted to multiage grouping was born through experienced people from the childcare field.

You have, no doubt, heard about the beginning of a movement which favors multiage grouping within childcare center. While multiage grouping has been predominant in home childcare, its educational reality can no longer be ignored. For all of these reasons we believe that multiage grouping is a project of the future and merits the interests of those hoping to improve the quality of children in childcare services.

In creating this new organization, we have set the following primary objectives:
• to promote the education of multi-age grouping which fosters the development of the child;
• to create links and a network of contacts between those interested in multiage grouping;
• to reflect effective pedagogical interventions;
• to assist in the understanding and implementation of multiage grouping;
• to distribute information to interested persons;
• to publish documents and audio- visual tools;
• to establish all other forms of services pertaining to childhood.

For Multiage Education in Early Childhood, our reference is Dr. Lilian Katz

The 2008-2009 QMA Board of directors

Geneviève Lemay, Ville St-Laurent (Montreal), Pedagogical Assistant in Childcare Center:
President.
Marie-Hélène Vincent, Vassan (Abitibi), Director in Childcare Center:
Administrator.
Jean-Marc Lopez, Montreal, Director in Family Childcare Center:
Secretary.
  Cecile Bonin, Montreal, Manager of Community Residence:
Treasurery.

Our journal Growing Through Multiage Grouping

• GTMG N 1, Vol. 2

• GTMG N 1, Vol. 1


Special WOFO Montreal 2005

Special Conference Bulletin CQSGEE Mont-St-Anne 2005

Our Multiage Documentation Center

Our Internet Multiage Documentation Center will open in English by autumn 2007.

He contains several hundreds of English texts whose majority are available on the Web.
To see (in French) Description: Multiage Documentation Center

To join Quebec Multiage Association (Journal in French and Multiage Documentation Center) Membership Form

To see our Web site in French

Our Publications

Multiage Grouping in Chilcare, 2 p.

Our 2008 Forum on Multiage (Early childhood and School)

2008 November 01, in Montreal, St-Pierre Center.

To see the program (in French).

Our other actions

Conferences tour in Quebec

We undertooke, in October and November 2007, a tour of Quebec where we gave conferences on the topic: "Multiage education in family daycare: an alternative for the young children at risk". This round was organized by the Chagnon Foundation in 9 areas of Quebec, through regional mini-conferences on early childhood daycare. We published for the occasion a special edition of Growing to Multiage Grouping.
These conferences had an impact on the perception of multiage in Quebec because several hundreds of people of various horizons will attend these conferences (educational staff of early childhood daycare and various government agencies and districts working with early childhood).

You wish submit an article or share your practical experience of multiage education?

Write to us! info@multiage.ca