Mother Tongue Teacher in Somali for Karlskoga Municipality

Exciting things are happening in our picturesque town right now. Here, you are always close to both beautiful nature and the high-tech industry. We offer you a welcoming workplace where people and innovations can grow.

As a teacher in the schools of Karlskoga Municipality, you have the opportunity to continue your professional development and advance your career. You can, among other things, become a VFU supervisor or a lead teacher, and we apply distributed leadership with responsibility for various development groups.

If you are a newly graduated teacher, you will receive mentorship from a mentor during your first year. If you are studying to become a teacher, there are also good opportunities to combine work with studies.

Mother Tongue Unit

The Mother Tongue Unit provides mother tongue instruction to approximately 550 students in 19 different languages. We are based at Skrantaskolan in southern Karlskoga, but your position includes teaching at several schools throughout the municipality. Study guidance is usually provided during daytime lesson hours, while mother tongue instruction takes place after regular school hours. This means working late afternoons and evenings.

We are 24 teachers and study guides working in the Mother Tongue Unit in a well-functioning and open team where we regularly meet and share experiences. We have quick access to decision-making and a culture where we support, complement, and learn from each other. Welcome to a meaningful job where you can truly make a difference for our multilingual students!

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

You will teach the subject of mother tongue Somali and, if necessary, provide study guidance in several subjects within the school forms of primary school, adapted primary school, upper secondary school, and adapted upper secondary school.

Your job responsibilities include:

• planning, implementing, and following up on instruction in the subject of mother tongue Somali
• analyzing teaching and results
• maintaining continuous contact with guardians
• school-wide value-based work
• providing study guidance in Somali as needed
• collaborating with teaching staff regarding study guidance
• collaborating with student health teams, school management, and external parties
• contributing to school development
• teamwork
• working and documenting in the operational systems used in the municipality

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who is a certified mother tongue teacher in Somali.

In addition to having XX as your mother tongue, you must have a good command of the Swedish language to communicate with students, colleagues, and guardians, as well as to document what the operations require in writing.

You have good knowledge of and a strong commitment to mother tongue instruction and want to motivate and stimulate students to increase their knowledge of their mother tongue.

To succeed as a study guide, you should, in addition to having good knowledge of Swedish, have a good understanding of the Swedish school system and possess strong subject knowledge.

You are a confident and clear leader in the classroom and find it easy to create and maintain good relationships with students, colleagues, and guardians. You value and contribute to good collaboration by having an open, accommodating, and problem-solving approach. You are structured and have the ability to plan, organize, and analyze students' learning and your teaching structure effectively to achieve desired results.

To contribute to the continued digital development of the Mother Tongue Unit, you are expected to have good IT skills and be able to easily engage with various digital systems.

If you have experience working with language-developing methods or Swedish as a second language, it is an advantage.

A driver's license and access to your own car are desirable but not required.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

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Background Check

To work in preschool, school, and youth and leisure activities, you must, according to the law on background checks, provide a background extract from the police's criminal record. You must request an extract from the National Police Board using the form "Extract from the Criminal Record" available on the police's website.

Karlskoga Municipality is part of the Finnish administrative area and thus has a responsibility to uphold the status of the Finnish language. This means, among other things, that we must offer preschool activities and elderly care in Finnish.

We kindly decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.