Teacher for After-School Center in Eda Municipality

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1 position(s).

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Assignment

The after-school center (fritidshem) complements the school both in terms of time and content by offering activities that connect to and reinforce the goals of the curriculum. As a teacher at the after-school center, you work with children and students aged 6–12. The overarching assignment is to create a meaningful leisure time that challenges and stimulates good health, learning, and development. A key part is being able to identify and base your work on the target/age group's own needs, interests, and experiences. The after-school center has a compensatory assignment that combines care with pedagogy. You are expected to collaborate with the municipal and non-profit cultural and leisure activities in Eda Municipality.

Tasks

In the role of a teacher at the after-school center, you are part of a work team together with other teachers and support staff, with the deputy principal as your direct manager. Teachers at the after-school center and leisure pedagogues work with assignments from national and local steering documents with responsibility for:

• Organizing, planning, and conducting teaching based on the assignment.
• Integrating practical/aesthetic learning processes into teaching, such as art, dance, drama, and music.
• Applying central steering documents and local pedagogical planning based on the curriculum.
• Conducting values-based work as formulated in the curriculum to prevent bullying and harassment.
• Performing student care work based on students' different needs, wishes, and conditions.
• Increasing the participation and influence of target/age groups and considering different needs and interests.
• Stimulating language, reading, and writing development from a first- and second-language perspective.
• Offering working methods within the subject areas of natural sciences, technology, and aesthetic expression.
• Using language- and knowledge-developing working methods as support for the primary school's knowledge assignment.
• Utilizing pedagogical learning resources such as games, books, toys, and digital tools for knowledge development.
• Arranging scheduled daily forms of physical, sports, and movement activities both indoors and outdoors.
• Collaborating with other staff and professional groups within the school, social services, culture, and leisure, etc.
• Conducting pedagogical documentation that forms a central foundation for the after-school center's quality work.

During school hours, you participate in some teaching at the lower primary level.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for you who are trained as a teacher and/or leisure pedagogue and have a teaching license with a university degree intended for teaching or work in the after-school center. If you have previous experience working in a similar activity, this is meritorious. If you have completed a high school diploma from the Child and Youth Program as a foundation and started a university/college education for teaching or work in the after-school center, this can also be seen as meritorious. If you are a recent graduate, you will receive a mentor at the school who will guide you to give you the best possible conditions.

Competency Profile

You have good knowledge of the school's assignment regarding democratic upbringing and values-based work in the fight against bullying and harassment. You have the ability to early on notice and listen to children who need adult support. You have a professional work and attitude approach as well as interaction in teaching within the after-school center. You have good communication skills to collaborate with the different staff groups and students within the school and after-school center, as well as with guardians. You have the ability to practically handle special pedagogical needs and to meet children and students with different identity, life, and upbringing conditions, with different needs to meet secure adults to build mutual trust and confidence-based relationships.

It is meritorious if you have previous experience working in sports, health, and physical activity for younger children with responsibility for various practical and aesthetic forms of physical, sports, and movement activities. We would appreciate if you have previous work experience in municipal operations, schools, and after-school centers, or alternatively in culture and leisure from public or non-profit activities. You have knowledge of supplementary legislation such as confidentiality and reporting obligations. To start working in preschool or school, you need to present an extract from the criminal record. Great importance will be attached to personal suitability. Good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written, is a requirement.

Employment Type: Permanent position.

Our operations are based on the vision of being a positive border municipality where people meet, characterized by collaboration, a strong business life, and the ambition to develop. We work actively with gender equality and value diversity both as a municipality and as an employer.

We offer happy work teams, positive workplaces, and good employee benefits for you as an employee!

Extracts from the criminal record and/or suspicion register will be requested before employment for positions where this is required.