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Job Responsibilities

We are now looking for a Swedish teacher who wants to help develop our school's work with reading!

Are you an experienced teacher who wants to contribute to our school's reading initiatives? You will be based in our school library, which currently has a qualified school librarian. This position is new and will be built and developed in collaboration with the school library, school management, lead teachers, and other teachers.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Working strategically and practically with reading across all subjects in collaboration with teachers.
• Leading the planning, implementation, and follow-up of reading promotion initiatives for students in grades 4–9.
• Utilizing and further developing the school library as an active part of teaching by supporting teachers in their selection of books, including textbooks, non-fiction, and fiction related to various subjects and areas.
• Guiding colleagues in language and knowledge-developing methods, focusing on reading strategies, text comprehension, and source criticism.
• Contributing to the school's systematic quality work related to students' reading development and goal fulfillment.

Qualifications

We are looking for a qualified and licensed Swedish teacher who wants to take on a developing and meaningful role with significant pedagogical responsibility. It is an advantage if you also have qualifications in Swedish as a second language. As a person, you are a skilled, engaged, and development-oriented educator with a strong drive. You have a good ability to lead yourself, take responsibility for your role, and drive development work forward, while also being highly skilled at collaborating and building professional relationships with both students and colleagues as well as school management.

To succeed in this role, we see that you have good and documented experience working with reading and reading promotion initiatives. You possess solid knowledge about reading in all subjects as well as language and knowledge-developing methods, and have a good understanding of genre pedagogy. Furthermore, you see the school library as a central resource for both teaching and learning.

With us, you will have the opportunity to influence and further develop the school's long-term work with reading in an organization that highly values collegial learning and pedagogical development. You will work closely with school management, the school library, and engaged colleagues.

Welcome with your application!

About the Workplace

Augustenborg School is a K-9 school in Malmö's southern inner city with approximately 750 students. We are a multicultural school with students and staff from all corners of the world. Here, there are curious students with a great desire to learn. At our school, we work in teams with competent and driven colleagues. You will have a close-to-operations school management that expects you to take responsibility for your own, your colleagues', and the entire school's development work. We work together, and collaboration is a key competence at our school. The school has structures for planning, implementation, and evaluation of teaching. We are working to develop genre pedagogy and our value-based work throughout the school.

The Primary School Administration – the city's largest administration with about 80 schools, 6300 employees, and 36,000 students offers a workplace for everyone. Here we want to grow, develop, and challenge ourselves in our learning together – every day. We ensure that everyone has a good working environment and invest in leadership. Together, we all work for each student's best school!

The City of Malmö's operations are organized into 14 administrations. Our common mission is to create welfare and sustainable community development. Together with the residents of Malmö, we are developing an even better city to live, work, and be in; differences, life experiences, and talents make Malmö a smart city in the heart of Europe. The world's knowledge is here.

Read about the City of Malmö as an employer here malmo.se/jobb (https://malmo.se/jobb)

Job Information

Employment type: Permanent
Extent: Full-time
Number of positions: 1
Start date: By agreement

Other

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The City of Malmö strives for its employees to represent the diversity that exists in our city. We therefore welcome applicants who can contribute to our ability as an employer to meet the needs of Malmö residents.

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