You have to remember that here in Sweden they have the highest level of English ability in the EU. They start learning it formally from Year 1.
To be honest there is little to no chance whatsoever that a school will hire a non native English speaker:
State schools:
1. A qualified (university educated/ teacher training) teacher who is a native English speaker who also has the Swedish language exam SAS B or TISUS will always get the job over an English teacher who is a non native speaker. In many cases, (sadly), a native Swede who usually teaches Swedish will also be the English teacher in many high school and upper primary schools (Year 7-9). Or a native Swede who has studied English as one of their main subjects will also get the job over a native speaker with the right qualifications.
2. There has been a major shake up of the education system over the last two years. Teachers who have been teaching for years and have various qualifications to teach certain grades are having to retrain and gain qualifications in subjects or grades that they may have been teaching. For example when training to be a teacher here in the past you specialised in a level. For example Grades 1-3 had a different training program than for a qualification to teach Grades 4-6 and 7-9 etc. So if a teacher is now teaching Year 4 and their qualification is for 1-3 they are having to complete extra courses in order to gain their teaching licence. (L�rare legitimation)
4. You will be expected to be able to speak and understand Swedish in order to write reports in Swedish. All your documentation will be in Swedish. You will need to speak with colleagues, your boss and parents in Swedish. Even though the rules are slightly different for teachers within the EU the reality is without being fluent in Swedish your chances of being hired are slim to none.
At primary school level and high school level, no state school will hire you without SAS B or TISUS. This is a Swedish language competency test which is equal to the level that Swedish high school students speak, read and write in the last year of high school. It took me a long time to achieve this. Even passing it is still nowhere really nearly close to the level of Swedish that you will need to have to be able to function professionally in a work environment.
Friskolor
(These are sort of private schools but are funded through the state)
These schools have more flexibility in who they hire, however, again you will be competing with educated native English speakers and qualified Swedes.
High School
Very few schools have just an English teacher. Most high school teachers have two or more subjects that they teach and are required to teach them. This is where you will find that the Swedish language teacher is also the English teacher.
No schools these days will even look at you if you do not have teacher training in your subject. A TEFL course or similar is not acceptable.
Adult education
Folkuniversitetet and Studieframj�ndet �r two of the largest adult education centres in Sweden. They hold night courses in just about anything you can imagine. I have also worked for both. The work is literally 2-3 hours a week is you are lucky and again they next to never hire a non native speaker for a language course. If your first language is czech then you could offer courses in that. If there was a market for it.
Mother Tongue Teaching : Modersm�lsundervisning
Many qualified teachers from around the world move to Sweden for one reason or another and just cannot find work in schools like they have done at home.
Every city and town in Sweden offers lessons to students in their mother tongue language. Students are eligible for lessons if one or both parents are from a country other than Sweden and they speak another language at home with one or both parents.
You potentially could find work as a mother tongue teacher in Czech. Again, as all meetings and documentation etc are in Swedish so while you would not have to have SAS B or TISUS (to start with) you would need to have a decent level. I know teachers who have been hired with SAS Grund level. (Level of a Y9 student)
However, if there was a job opening it would go to the native Czech speaker who had a formal teaching qualification from home with documented Swedish language exams.
I really hate to be the bearer of bad news- but Sweden is actually insanely hard to find work as a teacher if you are not Swedish and/ or don �t have a very good level of Swedish to communicate with.
Your questions.
However, you don �t say what your qualifications are or what grade or level you are wanting to teach in.
What textbooks do you teach? Depends on the school
How many lessons a week do you have? Depends on the level. From Year 1 they could have 2-3 lessons a week.
How many students are there in a class? Depends on where you are. Up north and in the country the class sizes can be smaller. Otherwise it �s around 30.
What level do your students achieve? By Y9 most students are around B1 of the European languages framework.
What methods do you use? Don �t know what you mean here. Do you have regular teacher training or do you have just an English as a Second language qualification?
How many tests do you write and use? Schools have national tests, as well as regular testing each term. Everything is working towards students achieving the criteria for various levels in the national curriculum.
