This position as Transition Class Teacher is for a unique education and care facility. You will work in a setting where education and youth care are truly integrated. The Transition Class is a joint initiative of various parties and focuses on children who cannot naturally attend regular school. It is a small-scale facility for a maximum of 6 children (4–8 years old) and 8 children (8–11 years old). In a safe, predictable environment, education and care collaborate intensively.
Daily supervision consists of a teacher, youth workers, and activity supervisors, with support from an orthopedagogue or behavioral scientist. The Transition Class is a temporary arrangement that starts with approximately 70% care and 30% education, with the goal of gradually increasing the educational component.
What you do
- Provides tailor-made education to children aged 4–11 with learning potential who are currently attending a care or day activity setting.
- Combines education and care so that children with intensive support needs can learn, grow, and develop further.
- Works closely with youth care professionals within a multidisciplinary team.
- Establishes Individual Development Plans (IDPs) and carefully monitors development.
- Ensures pedagogical safety and clear frameworks.
- Contributes to the further development of this facility.
- Works in one of the groups and offers customized support to children with complex support needs.
- Focuses, in addition to cognitive development, on strengthening basic skills, so that children can transition to appropriate education within one to two years.
- Collaborates on self-regulation, communication, and academic skills.
What they ask
- Pabo diploma (primary education teacher training).
- Experience within (Special) Primary Education (SBO) or Special Education for children with severe learning difficulties (SO-ZML).
- Knowledge of developmental learning pathways and didactic skills.
- Experience with drafting Individual Development Plans (IDPs) or action plans.
- Proficiency in setting educational goals and evaluating progress.
Profile
- Enthusiastic and flexible attitude towards children and colleagues.
- Entrepreneurial character and connects with colleagues, students, and parents.
- Takes on new things and easily sets boundaries.
- Is good at pioneering, strong in finding practical solutions, and effective in dealing with uncertainties and changing circumstances.
- Remains calm when not everything is clear, thinks in possibilities, and knows how to involve others in new developments.
- Ability to provide tailor-made solutions, based on innovative and creative problem-solving skills, to adapt learning material to the learning capabilities of the (non-verbal) child.
- Quality to celebrate the sometimes small developmental steps that children make and to draw sufficient motivation from them.
- Ability to work independently and individually, but also to maintain connection with fellow teachers and the multidisciplinary team.
- Desire for a pleasant and ambitious working environment where you can continue to develop.
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