Italian Mother Tongue Teacher – Temporary Position in Danderyd Municipality
Join us in making Sweden's best municipality even better. Danderyd Municipality offers community, development, and participation in the workplace. We make a difference and create value in everyday life through dialogue with everyone who lives, resides, and works here. Through proximity and short decision-making paths, you get the opportunity to take responsibility and work with both parts and the whole in your profession. Here we grow together with engaged residents, companies, and competent colleagues in the beautiful environment of the Garden City. Take the step towards a developing and sustainable working life in a municipality of just the right size, close to everything.
About the Multilingualism Unit
At the Multilingualism Unit, we work with mother tongue instruction and study guidance for students in all schools in the municipality. Currently, we are a team of about thirty teachers with competence in many different languages, delivering high-quality mother tongue instruction and study guidance to our residents. Our unit has very close cooperation with all schools in Danderyd, both municipal and independent.
Number of positions: 1
Responsibilities
As a mother tongue teacher, you will plan, conduct, and evaluate teaching according to the current curriculum. You will work in a language-developing and inclusive manner, creating teaching that gives students the opportunity to grow in both languages and self-confidence.
You will teach in groups of approximately 5–15 students, divided by school level:
- Lower secondary school (grades 1–3)
- Intermediate school (grades 4–6)
- Upper secondary school (grades 7–9)
All teaching takes place at a centrally located school in the municipality, in classrooms with the equipment you need. Teaching takes place on Mondays from 15:00 to 18:00. The times are fixed from year to year, which provides good conditions for planning and structure in the work.
As a teacher, you are responsible for your groups and subjects, but you are also an important part of a larger team of mother tongue teachers. With us, you will find:
- Great opportunities to develop and shape teaching
- Close cooperation with colleagues in different languages to develop teaching so that it always maintains high quality
- An operation where exchange of experience and pedagogical development are in focus
You are offered a stimulating working environment where your work makes a real difference for students' linguistic and cultural development.
Qualifications
We are looking for you who:
- Are a qualified mother tongue teacher in Italian
- Have very good knowledge of both Swedish and Italian, both orally and in writing
- Have very good knowledge of the Swedish curriculum
- Have digital competence and experience of using various digital tools and systems
It is an asset if you have previously worked as a mother tongue teacher.
We attach great importance to personal suitability. To enjoy and succeed in the role, you need to be a person who:
- Plans, structures, and prioritizes your work in an independent and efficient manner
- Is pedagogical, clear, and secure in your role
- Finds it easy to communicate and build good relationships with students, guardians, and colleagues
- Is creative and solution-oriented and finds ways to adapt your teaching to students' needs
- Is engaged, responsible, and collaborative
- Has a willingness to develop – both in your own practice and together with colleagues
At the Multilingualism Unit, the student is at the center, and we work as a team, where cooperation, sharing of experiences, and a common focus on development are central.
Employment Conditions
The position is a temporary assignment for the academic year 26/27, but there is a possibility that it may become a permanent position.
With reference to the Education Act, anyone offered this position must present a valid extract from the criminal record register before an employment contract can be concluded. An order for such can be made at www.polisen.se (https://www.polisen.se).
- Salary form: Monthly salary
- Employment type: Fixed-term employment
- Duration: 6 months or longer
- Working hours: Daytime. Mondays 10:45–18:15
Danderyd Municipality strives for a staff composition that reflects the diversity of society. We offer an exciting workplace with many nice and knowledgeable colleagues. Please visit our job portal https://www.danderyd.se/ovriga-verksamheter/jobba/ (https://www.danderyd.se/ovriga-verksamheter/jobba/) if you want to know what our managers say about the municipality's mission and future development. Here you can also gather information, including about our benefits. More information about our operations can be found at www.danderyd.se (https://www.danderyd.se).
To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Danderyd Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we wish that you submit your application digitally as above.
Grades and other documents as well as ID card should be brought to a possible interview.
Warmly welcome with your application!
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