Teacher for Preschool Class in Eda Municipality

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2 positions available.

Job Responsibilities

In the role of a teacher in the preschool class, you work to give students a good start in life in Eda Municipality and to lay the foundation for lifelong learning. The operations in the preschool class are governed by the Education Act and the curriculum. As a preschool teacher, you are responsible for promoting student development and learning during their time in the preschool class. You will work together with your colleagues in the F-3 work team.

As a preschool teacher, you have primary pedagogical responsibility in the preschool class. With the curriculum as a starting point, all preschool teachers at the unit are responsible for implementing steering documents in daily work. In daily work with students, there is a special focus on stimulating all students in their language development. This involves contact with guardians, as well as planning, implementation, documentation, follow-up, and evaluation of operations according to decided goals and guidelines.

As a preschool teacher, you are responsible for:

• Language, mathematical, scientific, technical, and aesthetic learning and development.
• Work with practical expressive forms such as art, music, and drama, where movement, play, and interaction are in focus.
• Planning teaching, with the help of others in the work team, based on the curriculum for the preschool class.
• Creating opportunities for exploration, play, and learning where students' influence is given room.
• Student learning and development with a special focus on reading, writing, and mathematics learning.
• Theme-based work based on a common thread and progression through operations over a longer period.
• Contact, dialogue, and cooperation with guardians regarding influence in the student's daily life in the preschool class.
• Implementing pedagogical adjustments in the student group's physical, pedagogical, and social learning environments.
• Making adjustments based on the student group's different needs or to stimulate students in need of special support in the right way.
• Cooperating with other work teams at the unit and professions within and outside the operations.
• Ensuring students' needs are respected and met, and that they experience their own value.
• Applying a democratic working method where students participate actively.
• Actively including a gender equality perspective so that all students get equal opportunities for expanded perspectives and choices.
• Developing norms and approaches for work and coexistence in the student group based on the curriculum's value base.
• Creating a professional approach in the work team through active employee participation.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have a degree from the preschool teacher program or are awaiting your preschool teacher license with eligibility to teach in preschool/preschool class. It is meritorious if you have previous work experience from similar work within preschools, or equivalent work with children in preschool or school. You should be well acquainted with, have knowledge of, and work to realize the goals of the curriculum. You have experience with and master digital tools in your work. Furthermore, you have a good ability to express yourself in the Swedish language, both in speech and writing, based on the preschool's documentation requirements. It is desirable if you can handle Edlevo and have worked with systematic quality work. Experience with language and knowledge-developing working methods is seen as meritorious.

Competency Profile

You have a professional work and approach attitude in your daily work when meeting with children, guardians, colleagues, and other professions. You are organized and structured, as well as driven in your professional role, and have a strong drive to keep the development of the pedagogical environment alive. Your focus on children is clear and is reflected in your approach in everyday life. In the role of preschool teacher, you have a strong will and great initiative in working to improve and develop operations based on set goals. You are open to learning from and together with other colleagues. You have collaboration skills and dare to challenge yourself and your colleagues in the work with children. In cooperation with others, you have an unpretentious approach and focus on the common goal in operations.

Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent, start date: 2026-09-14. Start on the specified date or by agreement. Probation period 6 months. Extract from the criminal record register must be submitted before employment can start.

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 a workplace.

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