Vacant job

Our municipality is characterized by the well-known Gnosjö spirit. Here, entrepreneurship, helpfulness, and ingenuity show that anything is possible. Family business is in our DNA, and children get to try running their own businesses already in school.

In our workplace, communication channels are short, and there is a closeness that only a small municipality can offer. We offer you a meaningful job in an exciting place. Here, there are opportunities for development and new bold ideas.

Bäckaskolan is a K-9 school located in the central town of Gnosjö. In grades 7-9, there are about 220 students from Gnosjö, Nissafors, and Åsenhöga and surrounding areas. We have around 40 staff members in our team. We offer you a meaningful job in an exciting workplace where there are great opportunities for development, as we welcome engagement and new ideas.

Why is Bäckaskolan a workplace for you?

As a teacher at Bäckaskolan, you have a great opportunity to shape your work according to your own thinking and knowledge, as well as in collaboration with colleagues within the work teams. Our quality and development work is driven within the work teams and subject teams. There is a significant exchange between educators and other professionals within the organization. A strong and important resource in our operations is the student health team, consisting of a counselor, principal, school nurse, special educator, and study and career counselor. This is part of our effort to provide all students with the foundation they need for high school and their future lives.

There is much we appreciate here at Bäckaskolan:

• We work with real school development and want to inspire each other to create the best school.
• The school management works to be close to the operations and create the best conditions for school development with clarity and structure.
• We are a smaller school where we see all students.
• We are a school where we have fun together and are happy to find ways to collaborate.
• We have a safety person who works to create a calm and secure school and can help you during more challenging meetings.
• We have a pleasant break room where good snacks and fun activities are offered, and it is always staffed.
• We have a strong resource team that helps create the best conditions for students to achieve as much as possible.
• We are located in Gnosjö with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. We collaborate with businesses, Young Entrepreneurship, Teknikcollege, and Young Drive to help students shape their own future dreams.
• And we always meet at the fishing pond.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

You will teach Swedish and Swedish as a second language in grades 7-9. The work also includes daily administration and contact with students, guardians, and colleagues. You will share the class leadership with a colleague.

We are looking for someone with a relational approach and clear leadership in the classroom. You have the student in focus and work with guidance and stimulation in the classroom to meet students at both group and individual levels. You are comfortable using compensatory aids in your work to meet students' needs. Digital tools are a natural part of your teaching. You are well-versed in grading and assessment.

You see the benefits of collegial learning and are happy to collaborate with colleagues and other professionals to develop the work, which is part of the school's systematic quality work. You see that collaboration and consensus benefit the student's development. You also see that good cooperation with guardians is a strength when we work for the student's best interests.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone with a degree and teaching certification with the authority to teach Swedish and Swedish as a second language in grades 7-9. We welcome applicants with previous teaching experience, but newly graduated teachers are also encouraged to apply.

We place great importance on social competence and the ability to meet students and collaborate with colleagues and other staff.

OTHER

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