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Childcare worker and teaching assistant

Would you like to work with children and help create a safe and stimulating environment? This programme prepares you to work as a childcare worker or teaching assistant in preschools, schools and other settings for children.

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About the programme

As a childcare worker, you help create a safe and stimulating environment for children. You can work in settings such as a municipal or private preschool or a parent-run cooperative preschool.

As a teaching assistant, you work in a school and provide practical and educational support to pupils in their daily activities.

Together with a study and career counsellor, you create an individual study plan by applying for separate subjects or subject levels. You can study one or more at a time, either full-time or part-time. The programme is delivered remotely or partly on-site.

Key facts

Study format: Distance learning/partly on-site
Study pace: Full-time, 65 weeks
Level: Upper secondary
Credits: 1,300
Language of instruction: Swedish
Location: –

Application

The programme starts every five weeks.

Spring start dates: weeks 4, 9, 14 and 19
Autumn start dates: weeks 36, 41, 46 and 51

Cost

The programme is free of charge and qualifies for Swedish student finance through CSN.

Entry requirements

To apply, you need to have completed compulsory school or have equivalent knowledge. You also need to be at least 20 years old.

After the programme

You can work in settings such as:

  • preschools
  • school-age childcare
  • children's holiday camps
  • as an au pair
  • recreational activities for children, for example at resorts, amusement parks or zoos.

Further studies

As a childcare worker, you may have opportunities for continuing professional development through your employer. There are also further training programmes in the field that can be studied full-time or part-time, including through distance learning.

Good to know

You pay for your own course materials.

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Contact

Education administration

E-mail: larcentrum@boden.se

Phone: +46 921 627 52