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Special Educator for Nygårdskolan in Borlänge

Nygårdskolan is a multicultural F-6 school (grades 1-6) in Borlänge Municipality with approximately 275 students. The school is located in a beautiful environment close to nature. The school is currently in a very exciting phase of development, with a focus on knowledge, joy, safety, and a conducive learning environment. We work actively every day to give our students the best conditions to influence their future. The students at Nygårdskolan are greeted every day by staff who show confidence in their ability to reach as far as possible, both academically and socially.

"We want a school focused on knowledge and calm work environment where everyone reaches their goals and can choose their own future."

At Nygårdskolan, we work in year-level teams, safety teams, and student health teams. The school is characterized by joy in work, collegial learning, and common goals. The school leadership, together with lead teachers, drives active pedagogical development work based on the school's needs, research, and proven experience.

We are looking for you who want to drive our exciting development work together with us to make a difference for every individual student! Naturally, our core values appeal to you:

• I am here for the people of Borlänge
• I like challenges
• I meet every person with openness

Job Responsibilities

We are currently on an exciting journey in our Student Health Team (SHT) work, where we want to ensure high quality in the interventions we carry out for our students. This involves how we strategically and systematically work with student health and special pedagogical interventions to provide the right support at the right time.

Therefore, we want to expand the school's special pedagogical team with a special educator who works closely with the school's special pedagogist. As a special educator, your mission is to create the best possible conditions for learning through targeted interventions and extra support for our students. You will work with students individually, in small groups, or directly in the classroom. As part of this, we would appreciate it if you also worked at the group level and supervised colleagues in language, reading, and writing development work.

Your role also includes supporting teachers in pedagogical assessments, developing action plans, and contributing to the mapping of mathematical difficulties as well as reading and writing difficulties. You are part of the school's student health team.

Promoting an accessible learning environment and applying differentiated teaching are a natural part of your work as a teacher. In addition, you are responsible for planning, implementing, assessing, and evaluating pedagogical work in accordance with the school's governing documents as well as the students' needs and interests.

Qualifications

Basic requirements for the position:

• Licensed teacher with special educator education.
• Experience working with special pedagogical interventions.
• Strong ability to plan, implement, follow up, and document both support interventions and students' knowledge development.
• Very good oral and written skills in Swedish.
• Well-versed in the school's governing documents and able to translate them into practice.

Personal qualities:

You are confident and clear in your leadership role, have good communication skills, and are skilled at building relationships. Teamwork, flexibility, and a solution-focused approach are crucial, as is the ability to work independently. You have a clear value system where all people are seen as equally valuable. Your view of students is based on the belief that all children want and can succeed with the right support. You are proactive and collaborate with others to create a positive and developmental climate among both students and staff.

Meritorious qualifications:

• Experience using digital tools (these are a natural part of our operations).
• Experience teaching multilingual students.

Employment Terms

• Salary: Monthly salary.
• Employment type: Permanent position.
• Duration: Permanent, start: ASAP according to agreement.
• Working hours: Daytime.

During the interview, you as a candidate must provide proof of citizenship in Sweden/EU/EES or a valid work and residence permit. For those offered employment, a certificate of good conduct from the Swedish Police Authority is required according to the Act on Register Checks from 2001-01-01.

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To ensure quality in the recruitment process in Borlänge Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via the link.

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