In FDK, 4- and 5-year-olds (i.e., first- and second-year students) are mixed in each class and typically remain with the same teaching team for their full two years before moving on to first grade. Planned partnerships with families and local school communities Two years of full-day schooling before first grade, beginning the year children turn 4Īn instructional partnership, known as the Early Learning–Kindergarten team, between an early childhood educator, or ECE, registered with the College of Early Childhood Educators, and a kindergarten teacher registered through the Ontario College of TeachersĪ principal who works closely with the Early Learning–Kindergarten team
The Ministry of Education of the province of Ontario, Canada, has initiated a remarkable new full-day, two-year program for 4- and 5-year-olds. The Full-Day Early Learning–Kindergarten Program (FDK) is the government’s transformative response to the vast, ever-growing body of early childhood research indicating that high-quality early learning programs produce long-term benefits to children’s social and academic skills (Ontario Ministry of Education 2017).Īlthough Ontario began providing publicly funded kindergarten over a century ago, particular hallmarks of the FDK program make it markedly innovative:
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