Special Education Teacher at Gullhögskolan, Vårgårda Municipality

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Welcome to our fantastic special education team

We are now looking for two special education teachers due to retirements – one special education teacher with a focus on mathematics and one with a focus on language, reading, and writing.

About Gullhögskolan

Gullhögskolan is Vårgårda Municipality's lower secondary school with approximately 410 students. Here, all the municipality's young people gather to jointly complete the final stage of compulsory education together. We are located centrally in Vårgårda, and you can easily reach us from the surrounding municipalities. Our school is a place to be proud of.

Every day, over 60 staff members work here for our wonderful students. We are organized into work teams around three classes in the same year level and in subject teams for collaboration and support in subject development. You will be part of the work team "spec-team" and the subject team for mathematics or Swedish and Swedish as a second language. Together, you are responsible for the students' knowledge development.

In addition to the teaching staff, we have a complete student health team with 1–2 persons per profession. As a branch from the Student Health Team (SHT), the special education team provides students with support in their learning, and the social team supports social development with break activities, adult presence, work against harassment, and work for attendance. We have our own caretaker, a fantastic school cafeteria, an administrative office, and a nice school library with an educated librarian in collaboration with teachers who have library duties. We also have a special education group, adapted compulsory school, preparatory group, and are responsible for mother tongue instruction and study guidance in the municipality's compulsory schools.

We focus on cognitive science of learning and teaching, reading analogously, writing by hand, using retrieval in teaching, and ensuring that practical subjects are just practical to the greatest extent possible. Here, you receive great trust in your profession and good opportunities to work both independently and in groups, as well as opportunities for development. You will have competent, experienced, and pleasant colleagues who are eager to collaborate with you. Welcome!

Job Responsibilities

Your duties as a special education teacher are standard and include, among other things:

• Support teaching individually, in small groups, and in the classroom.
• Planning, implementation, and development of teaching.
• Assessment and consultation with teachers prior to the teacher's grading (in some cases, also own grading).
• Homework help and extended study time.
• Active participation in the special education team and the subject team.
• Analysis of grades and proposals for resource allocation.
• Investigations, follow-ups, and in some cases, drawing up action plans.
• Collaboration with students, guardians, colleagues, management, and in some cases, external actors.

Qualifications and Merits

We are looking for you who have a teaching license with the qualification to teach mathematics in grades 7–9 and preferably with a completed supplementary education as a special education teacher with a focus on mathematics or language, reading, and writing.

Meritorious:

• Previous experience of special education at the lower secondary level.
• Knowledge of cognitive science of learning and teaching (science of learning) and science of reading.

Employment Terms

Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent.
Start date: According to agreement, earliest 2026-08-10.

To ensure quality in the recruitment process at Vårgårda Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally and not via email or paper format.

A extract from the crime register is required for some of the municipality's positions before employment can take place. We will therefore request this from you if offered a position with us in Vårgårda Municipality. The extract must not be older than 6 months.

We warmly welcome your application!

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