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Are you passionate about building warm relationships with young people? Here, you will become part of a development-oriented collegium at a school with many colleagues and close collaborations. Welcome to us at Ekholms School!

Your responsibilities

As a music teacher in grades 7–9, you have one of the school's most fun and creative assignments. You plan, implement, and evaluate music teaching based on the curriculum (Lgr22). At Ekholms School, we have chosen to organize the teaching so that you meet students in smaller groups instead of whole classes, which gives you fantastic opportunities to see each individual student, adapt the teaching, and create a good study environment. The position also involves mentorship in a class.

We place extra emphasis on ensuring you have a secure start with us. If you are new to the profession or new to the school, you will receive a structured introduction with support from our lead teachers to help you settle into the teaching role and our routines. You also share music facilities with the music teacher at the special needs school, where there are good opportunities for a rewarding and non-hierarchical collaboration in everyday life – where you can bounce pedagogical ideas off each other, support one another, and plan joint traditions or school graduations based on interest.

Your main tasks:

• Plan and conduct stimulating, varied, and challenging music teaching where you find strategies to motivate, engage, and include all students.
• Work actively with mentorship and create safe relationships with students and guardians by being an adult who inspires trust inside and outside the classroom.
• Use digital tools as a natural part of the pedagogical learning environment.

Your workplace

Ekholms School is a grades 7–9 school in the southern districts of Linköping. The school has approximately 400 students, which includes a special education group, and we also have a resource school with a focus on autism. 60 staff members work at the school, most of whom are teaching teachers. The school has a full-time equivalent (FTE) team with our three full-time mentors. The primary school also shares the building with the special needs school.

We strive for Ekholms School to be a safe and accepting school, where you can be exactly who you are. As an employee here, you get engaged colleagues who appreciate collaborating around students in need of support. Our common mission is to help our students reach their knowledge goals, become democratic citizens, and feel good on the way there.

You who apply

We are primarily looking for you who have a teaching license with eligibility to teach music in grades 7–9. Secondly, we are looking for you with a completed teacher education for grades 7–9. Alternatively, you are at the end of your education to become a teacher in grades 7–9.

It is a requirement that you have experience working in a curriculum-driven school through practice or as an employee. It is meritorious if you have taught in grades 7–9 for at least one school year. It is also meritorious if you have experience with grading or alternatively documenting student learning during the school year.

To succeed and thrive as a music teacher in grades 7–9 at a secondary school, you need to be a calm person with great patience. You have the ability to inspire trust and possess strategies to motivate and include even those students who may feel hesitant about the subject of music. You are quality-conscious and a good role model who collaborates well with both colleagues and guardians.

In your role as a teacher in grades 7–9, you have good knowledge of the school's mission and are well acquainted with the curriculum (Lgr22) and other regulatory documents. You have good communicative skills in speech and writing in the Swedish language. This is because, according to the curriculum (Lgr22), you must organize and carry out the work so that the student receives support in their language and communication development. You are responsible for ensuring that each student can use the Swedish language in a rich and nuanced way.

As a teacher, you are a good role model. You have the ability to adapt your teaching to the students and let them participate in the design of the teaching. In a quality-conscious way, you create good conditions for the student's development and learning and document this. You collaborate well with colleagues, guardians, and other contacts in society that occur in your professional role.

Other information

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Start date: 2026-08-01 or according to agreement

Employment type: Permanent employment

For the position to be permanent, a teaching license must be presented; until then, it is a fixed-term employment.

Employment level: 100%

Number of vacancies: 1

Ref. no: 17321

No cover letter is attached to this application.

Those who have a issued teaching license and eligibility list, please attach these as files together with your application documents when applying for the position. Are you a trained teacher but have not yet applied for a teaching license, please attach a certificate of education. Are you studying to become a teacher, attach a certificate of study for courses completed so far at a university or college.

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