The community is a safe, nurturing environment where the diversity of children is valued and celebrated. Multiage education promotes a family-like climate that bonds teachers, parents and students together into a community of learners. Cross-age friendships develop between students inspiring helping and cooperative behaviors. The teachers and students of a multiage classroom remain together for more than one year. This strengthens relationships and allows teachers and children to build upon knowledge learned in the past.
Multiage education requires teachers to focus on each child's academic and social needs.
Multiage groupings make it easy to see children as individuals because teachers are forced to assume difference rather than likeness. A multiage classroom is a busy place. Children are engaged in various active, hands-on learning experiences.