REPORTS TO: Dean of Students

JOB DESCRIPTION:

A Learning Support teacher helps design and implement interventions for students with learning needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Collaborating with the subject teachers to set targets and strategies and accommodations needed by the identified students.
• Create individualized, strategic lessons and interventions for the student
• Help students to cope with and overcome problems that arise because of learning difficulties.
• Use adaptive technology and targeted intervention programs to maximise individual learning potential.
• Work with students within a class and in small groups
• Progress monitor and collect data to measure student progress and appropriateness of student support.
• Planning, collaborating and implementing ILP’s.
• Adapting MYP program and conventional teaching methods to meet individual needs.
• Working as a team-member within the Department and wider school staff and liaising with other relevant individuals such as educational psychologists, parents and other specialists that compose a multidisciplinary team.
• Providing professional development and classroom strategies to teachers that will improve the classroom performance and student achievement.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND ATTRIBUTES:

• Qualified SPED teacher or Qualified teacher with SPED related training
• Experience as a Learning Support Teacher
• Experience of MYP curriculum is an advantage.
• Qualification in the area of Mathematics and English is an advantage.
• Self-motivation, creativity and enthusiasm
• Experience in working with / awareness of local laws
• Experience and flexibility working in an international school environment
• Excellent communication, collaboration and organizational skills
• A strong ability to establish good rapport with students and adults
• Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Ability to view students with unconditional positive regard
• Ability to show initiative and to work independently
• Ability to administer assessments
• Fluent in English (reading, writing, speaking)
• Good Team player who shows flexibility

Contract:

100 %, temporary

Salary:

Fixed salary

Starting:

August 6th 2024

Application

Last day for applications 3rd of June 2024 (interview procedure can start earlier)

We only accept applications in English and from qualified teachers.

Please send your letter of interest and CV to [email protected] with the title ‘Learning Support Teacher - Middle school’.

At Stockholm International School we are committed to protecting children. Aligned with the recommendations of the International Task Force on Child Protection, we hold ourselves to a high standard of effective recruiting practices with specific attention to child protection. All applicants will therefore be required to undergo appropriate child protection screening. Included in the recruitment process will be a local and national police check as well as a mandatory police background check from the last year of employment in every country worked.