Special Education Teacher at Polhem's Adapted Upper Secondary School

Stockholm – our capital city with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone living here today and in the future. We are now looking for someone who wants to think big, new, and differently with us – for the people of Stockholm.

Welcome to us

Polhem's adapted upper secondary school is a creative school where students learn through experiences.

In an open and creative environment, our students develop together with many adults. With clear rules, we create safety for our students. At Polhem's adapted upper secondary school, activities, nationalities, and languages together form the soul of the school. Here, knowledge, culture, and health are at the center.

The school is located near Fridhemsplan with several subway lines and buses. This makes it easy for both students and staff to get to school. In the vicinity of the school, there are culture and services, parks, and green areas within walking distance. Currently, about 200 students attend Polhem's adapted upper secondary school. 145 students study the national programs, and a maximum of 55 students study the individual program.

Programs

• Individual program.
• Program for aesthetic activities.
• Program for crafts and production with a focus on fine carpentry or design, hairdressing, and fashion.
• Program for society, nature, and languages with a general or digitalization profile.

The school has about 100 staff members, and we are now looking for a special education teacher with qualifications in natural science, social studies, and geography to teach in the national program. You will be an important part of the school's mission to prepare and train students to become active future citizens. Central to this is the students' acquisition of knowledge to increase their opportunities to create the best possible conditions for the future. Welcome to read more about our school at: Polhem's Adapted Upper Secondary School – City of Stockholm (https://www.stockholm.se/polhemsanpassadegymnasieskola)

We offer

• A safe and inclusive working environment with dedicated colleagues.
• A meaningful mission where you make a difference.

Your role

As a teacher at Polhem's adapted upper secondary school, you are responsible for planning, teaching, evaluating, and assessing the education based on each student's individual conditions, needs, and goals. The teaching is characterized by structure, clarity, safety, and a low-arousal approach. You design the teaching in accordance with curricula, course plans, and current knowledge requirements.

Your role includes teaching, mentorship, participation in program and subject teams, and other educational processes concerning our students. You collaborate with colleagues and are an important part of the collegial learning to create new and deepened knowledge. You cooperate with student health, guardians, and external actors.

Together, we create an accessible, meaningful, and developing learning environment where every student is given the opportunity to succeed.

Your qualifications and experience

We are looking for someone who:

• has high expectations for student learning, good pedagogical insight, and is clear, engaged, and purposefully works to ensure that each student reaches as far as possible in their knowledge development.
• adapts the learning environment and teaching materials according to students' needs.
• works with clarifying pedagogy and alternative and augmentative communication.
• has experience working in adapted schools.

You are a licensed teacher with qualifications in natural science, social studies, and geography for the adapted upper secondary school, and you have a special education degree with a focus on intellectual disabilities.

You work to make the student involved in their own learning and develop the student's ability to learn, both independently and together with others.

As a person, you are secure, stable, have self-awareness, and are a clear leader in the classroom. You structure and organize your work effectively. Your communication is clear, and you adapt your way of conveying knowledge according to the students' different conditions. You lead and organize your work to create a safe learning environment based on respect and cooperation and see collegial learning as a given. You value and create good conditions for collaboration and build good relationships with students, colleagues, and external contacts.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

The City of Stockholm works with competence-based recruitment aimed at recognizing each person's competence and thereby counteracting discrimination.