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Welcome to the municipality that is far from average!

Botkyrka municipality is the sixth largest municipality in Stockholm County and consists of the districts Alby, Fittja, Hallunda, Norsborg, Tullinge, Tumba, Vårsta, and Grödinge. Botkyrka municipality has approximately 95,000 inhabitants and over 6,400 employees.

The Education Administration is responsible for preschools, after-school care, primary schools, high schools, and adapted primary and secondary schools. We have over 3,200 employees at 45 preschools, 22 primary schools, and four high schools. There is a strong commitment to ensuring that all children and students receive high-quality education, the opportunity to develop, and to reach their full potential. In Botkyrka, we see that success in school is the key to a good life and the strongest protective factor for the future.

Job Description and Responsibilities

As a preschool teacher, you are responsible for the education in preschool by contributing to the realization of the curriculum's goals and intentions in education.

You are well acquainted with the curriculum and are confident in your professional role. We want you to have an approach where learning and knowledge development are in focus.

You are responsible for planning, implementing, and documenting the pedagogical work in preschool while understanding the importance of collegial learning. The preschool teacher leads the pedagogical work and is responsible for ensuring that children receive the education they are entitled to. You should have the child's best interests in mind and a strong belief that all children can succeed. We want the children to feel confident in their own abilities, that they can, dare, and want to. This requires your ability as a preschool teacher to be creative and to adapt the teaching according to the needs that exist.

You see a holistic perspective in education and value collaboration with guardians and other important stakeholders. Together with your colleagues, you work based on the systematic quality work carried out throughout the preschool unit. In your role, you are expected to plan, implement, evaluate, and develop the pedagogical activities in line with current governing documents. You need to be genuinely curious about how you and your colleagues can drive development issues together. You should both individually and together with your colleagues organize so that children have the opportunity to spend the whole day in meaningful contexts in both smaller and larger groups.

We actively work to create a learning environment that challenges children's learning processes and inspires and awakens curiosity for exploration.

With us, you will have the opportunity to work with engaged colleagues with high ambitions in an organization that values reflection and curiosity. Through an exploratory approach, you will have the opportunity to closely follow children's curiosity and questions, and we help each other to turn perspectives both with the children and within the staff. You will also work with sustainability issues as these are highly relevant for us since the unit has received an award for "School for Sustainable Development" from the Swedish National Agency for Education.

Qualifications

Requirements: You have a Swedish teaching license according to the Swedish National Agency for Education with authorization to teach in preschool.

• Good knowledge and experience of using digital tools
• Approved work sample that will be conducted and is required for employment in preschool.
• Well acquainted with Lpfö18.
• Clear leader in your role towards children, colleagues, and guardians.
• You should have good communication skills and be able to express yourself well in Swedish, both orally and in writing.
• Collaboration, joy at work, and work ethic are key principles for you in your professional role.
• Language development working methods, both education and experience
• Project-oriented working methods, experience in leading a project-oriented approach with a focus on exploration within scientific didactics, and
• Pedagogical documentation as an approach, experience in following children's learning processes.

It is meritorious if you have:

• Knowledge of children with special needs.
• Experience with visual support and TAKK
• Project-oriented working methods, experience in leading a project-oriented approach with a focus on exploring together with the children

The ability to quickly build trusting relationships, especially with the children, but also with colleagues and guardians, is of utmost importance. Everything we do in our work is relational, which makes competencies such as collaboration and solution-oriented, as well as analytical and flexibility, important skills to have. This is essential for leading the work with children forward in your role as a preschool teacher, but also in leading the team in a complex yet exciting educational context. Personal suitability is of great importance as you will take over when a preschool teacher temporarily takes on another assignment in the municipality.

For positions in the Education Administration in Botkyrka municipality, you as a prospective employee will undergo a background check.

Read more about background checks here: https://www.botkyrka.se/bakgrundskontroll (https://www.botkyrka.se/bakgrundskontroll)