French-speaking licensed preschool teacher for our toddler department

Do you want to become a part of BMSL?

BMSL – Bilingual Montessori School of Lund – is a multilingual preschool and primary school in the center of Lund. At our school, we have children and students from one year of age up to grade 9, which creates a unique continuity and community throughout the child's entire schooling.

We want to be a preschool and school where children and students feel safe, seen, and curious to learn. A place where they are given the opportunity to discover, explore, think independently, and develop based on their own prerequisites. With us, learning, security, and good relationships go hand in hand.

Today, BMSL has approximately 44 children in the preschool and 420 students in the primary school F–9. Our employees, children, and students have different linguistic and cultural backgrounds, which contributes to a stimulating, international, and dynamic environment. English, French, and Swedish are a natural part of the operations starting from the preschool and follow the children throughout their entire time at BMSL.

Now we are looking for a French-speaking licensed preschool teacher for our toddler department.

We are looking for you who want to work in our department for the youngest children, 1–2 years old, and be part of creating a safe, warm, and developing first period in the preschool.

Working with our youngest children is characterized by presence, care, and responsiveness. We place great importance on creating secure relationships and a predictable everyday life where every child is given the opportunity to explore their surroundings, develop their independence, and encounter new experiences at their own pace. Care, development, and learning form a whole in the children's daily lives.

The work at our preschool is based on Montessori pedagogy. We start from the child's inherent drive to learn, discover, and develop, and work to create a prepared environment that stimulates independence, curiosity, and participation. As an educator, you are present and guiding, creating the conditions for even the youngest children to develop based on their individual needs and abilities.

As a preschool teacher with us, you, together with your colleagues, have an important role in developing the teaching and creating an environment where every child is given the opportunity to grow, explore, and develop. You are responsible for planning, leading, implementing, following up on, and developing the teaching based on the preschool curriculum, Montessori pedagogy, and the children's needs, experiences, and interests.

The preschool is multilingual, and Swedish, English, and French are a natural part of the children's daily lives. For this position, we are specifically looking for you who is French-speaking and who wants to contribute actively so that the children, from an early age, get to encounter and develop the French language in a natural and joyful way in everyday life.

We are looking for you who:

is a licensed preschool teacher speaks French and feels confident using the language actively with the children has a special interest in working with the youngest children in the preschool is well acquainted with the preschool curriculum and the preschool teacher's responsibility for teaching wants to work based on the fundamental principles of Montessori pedagogy has a warm, secure, and professional approach is responsive to the youngest children's signals, needs, and ways of communicating has the ability to create trusting relationships with children, guardians, and colleagues works in a structured manner while being flexible and solution-oriented sees collaboration and shared responsibility as a natural part of the work feels confident communicating in English in our multilingual environment.

If you have Montessori training, experience in Montessori activities, or previous experience working with children aged 1–2 years, we consider it particularly meritorious.

Working at BMSL

At BMSL, you will become part of a preschool where different languages, experiences, and perspectives meet every day. Here, we work closely together and believe in professional responsibility, collegial collaboration, and an operation where the children's best interests are the starting point for our decisions.

The fact that the preschool is part of BMSL's operations from one year of age to grade 9 also gives us something special – the opportunity to create continuity and long-term relationships regarding the children's development and learning.

For many of our youngest children, you and your colleagues will be their first encounter with the preschool. We are therefore looking for you who want to create a safe and curious start to a long journey of learning and development with us at BMSL.

Welcome with your application and become a part of BMSL!