How Does Learning Happen? Ontario’s Pedagogy for the Early Years is a professional learning resource guide about learning through relationships for those working with young children and families. It is intended to support pedagogy and curriculum/program development in early year’s programs. (HDLH p.5)

 Pedagogy is “the understanding of how learning takes place and the philosophy and practice that support that understanding of learning”.3 Curriculum (the content of learning) and pedagogy (how learning happens) in early years settings are shaped by views about children, the role of educators and families, and relationships among them. This pedagogical document, How Does Learning Happen?, helps educators focus on these interrelationships in the context of early years environments. (HDLH p.5)

 How Does Learning Happen

An Introduction to How Does Learning Happen? Ontario’s Pedagogy for the Early Years  For Educators

An Introduction to How Does Learning Happen? Ontario’s Pedagogy for the Early Years For Leaders

Child Care licensees now have access to the E-Module: Putting How Does Learning Happen? into Practice: Program Expectations for Licensed Child Care. This E-Module will assist early years professionals to understand connections between How Does Learning Happen and the new program related requirements under the Child Care and Early Years Act, 2014.

Building On HDLH Oct 2020

Central to this is a view of children as competent, capable of complex thinking, curious and rich in potential. To support educators working in early years settings in their continuous professional learning, the Ministry worked with leading experts in the early childhood field to develop the following thought-provoking resources.

Think, Feel, Act:  Lessons from Research about Young Children