Special Education Teacher with Intellectual Disability Focus, Grades 1-6 at Kannebäck Adapted Elementary School

GÖTEBORGS KOMMUN · Vollzeit

Göteborgs Stad, Göteborg, Schweden

Description Beginning in fall 2021, the organization of our elementary schools in Gothenburg City changed. We expanded the number of leadership positions so we could create sustainable school leadership teams with a principal and assistant principal. The new organization aims to provide us with good conditions to create an equitable school with high quality instruction. In the new organization, we form school districts with one or more school units and shared leadership teams. The leadership teams will give schools the opportunity for increased collaboration and the chance to become stronger together. School District 20 in Southwest consists of the following five school units: Deaf and Hearing F-9, Kannebäck Adapted Elementary School 1-9, Kannebäck Resource School 1-9, Kannebäck, Ängåsskolan F-6, and Vättnedalsskolan F-6. The leadership team for School District Southwest 20 consists of one principal and six assistant principals as well as approximately 300 staff members. Right now we are seeking a special education teacher with a focus on intellectual disability (ID) for Kannebäck Adapted Elementary School to teach grades 1-6. We have a unique bilingual environment with Swedish Sign Language and Swedish. Here, students meet with varying degrees of hearing loss and deafness, often in combination with language disorder and/or other neurodevelopmental disabilities. We view sign language not only as a communication tool, but as a key to identity, knowledge, and social community. We value visual accessibility and linguistic inclusion in everything we do. Job Duties Your primary task will be to create a safe and predictable learning environment for students who have comprehensive support needs during the school day and need that little extra – both pedagogically and relationally. You will have instruction in a smaller student group as well as one-on-one to strengthen knowledge development, and the assignment requires a high degree of flexibility and responsiveness. We can offer small student groups and good support from a student welfare team consisting of speech-language pathologists, special education specialists, counselors, psychologists, and school nurses. We offer opportunities for professional development in TAKK (Sign as Alternative and Augmentative Communication), sign language, language disorders, and neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDD). Qualifications You who are applying: have teacher certification and a special education teacher degree, preferably with eligibility to teach grades 1-6 have a special education teacher degree, preferably with a focus on intellectual disability have competence and experience working with clarifying pedagogy and a low-affect approach have experience working with students with neurodevelopmental disabilities are a responsible person who can meet students with warmth and respect have basic knowledge of Swedish Sign Language or interest in learning it We want you to be independent, flexible, clear, and creative. We want you to have knowledge of and commitment to students in need of special support. Furthermore, we see that you also have good knowledge of the adapted elementary school curriculum. We want you to have a good approach and knowledge of strategies regarding students in need of special support. We see you as a team player who collaborates with the student's best interests in focus, while also being self-directed and resourceful. Warmly welcome with your application! The position is filled subject to it not being claimed for internal reasons. Other Gothenburg City applies individual and differentiated salary setting. Here you can get more information about, among other things, salary statistics: Salary, Compensation and Benefits - Gothenburg City As an employee in our administration, you are offered, among other things, wellness allowance, bicycle benefit, and employee support. According to the Education Act, an extract from the police criminal record must be presented by persons before they are employed in preschool activities, school, and school childcare. You order this on the Police website. For this recruitment, we have decided on recruitment channels and therefore we ask that you refrain from offering competency services, advertising and recruitment assistance. We only accept applications through our recruitment system in accordance with GDPR. About Us We create the future in Gothenburg – one lesson at a time Every day, thousands of children and young people meet in our schools – with them we shape Gothenburg's future. In the Elementary School Administration, we are 10,000 committed employees working together so that all students succeed and grow, regardless of background or circumstances. You have an important role in creating an equitable school with high quality, where you both get to develop and develop the operations. You build knowledge, community, and hope for the future together with your colleagues. With us, you get to make a difference – for real. Gothenburg's Elementary School Administration is responsible for the city's approximately 140 municipal schools, from preschool class to grade 9, adapted elementary school, after-school care, and cultural school. Welcome to work close to the forest, the city, or the sea. We are Gothenburg.