Location: Norfolk, VA 23502

Date Posted: 5/3/2024

Category:

Education: HS Graduate/GED

With over 30 years in business, the Delta-T Group has built a reputation for referring highly qualified professionals for rewarding short and long-term independent contract opportunities.

Our Client is seeking motivated and reliable Special Education Paraprofessionals.

SUMMARY OF CLIENT'S DESCRIPTION OF THIS OPPORTUNITY
* Support the Special Education Teacher with assisting with lesson plans, activities, and help students reach their academic goals.
* Assist the student with the physical tasks such as, using the restroom, hand washing, daily living, etc.
* Maintain a professional attitude and consistent respect towards the students.
Provides instructional support to teachers in the daily management and instruction of special education students.
* Requires some knowledge of child growth and development, group interaction, health, safety, and first-aid methods.
* Works with individual and small groups of children to develop fine and gross motor skills.
* Responsible for performing instruction and clerical tasks to relieve teacher of routine activities and to help carry out daily classroom activities.
* May be required to work at various locations with various assignments to include; pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, regular general education classrooms, special education, or computer learning center/lab.
* Performs designated learning tasks with students such as, demonstrating or explaining lessons, prompting student participation, monitoring during tests, and assisting with other instructional tasks.
* May be required to attend to children with various levels of mental and physical disabilities (LD, MR, ED, and PH).
* May serve part-time in an alternative learning class.
* Responsible for operating office equipment and audio-visual equipment.
* Assists in therapeutic crisis intervention.
* Performs a wide variety of monitoring, record keeping, and file maintenance for an accelerated learning program.
* Assists students in physical activities; to include escorting children to the library, playground activities, lunchroom breaks, resource classes, restrooms, and field trips.
* May be required to work one-on-one or with a group of students; to include assisting students with physical and sanitation needs.
* Responsible for monitoring children in the teacher's absence.
* Requires continuous standing, walking, lifting and physical restraint.
* Work may include noise and/or disruptive student behavior and exposure to student bodily fluids.
* Requires sensitivity to the ways physical and mental disabilities affect the behavior of children.
* Ability to assist in providing a wide variety of stimulating experiences for children to meet their individual, intellectual, and emotional needs.
* Incumbent should be able to lift 50 pounds.
* Ability to effectively communicate with parents, teachers, and administrators.
* Works under the direct supervision of the classroom teacher and administrative personnel according to established policies and procedures.
* Performs additional duties as assigned.

CLIENT'S REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION
*Licensure and Other Requirements: background check, drug test, completion of at least sixty (60) college credit hours from an accredited college or university; or must have achieved a score of 455 on the Department of Education Para-Pro exam
* One or more years of experience with children (childcare/special needs) - required
* Ability to complete and pass given background checks

DTG ADVANTAGES
* Establish a relationship with one of the nation's largest referral agencies for behavioral-health.
* Compensation processed weekly.
* Increase or decrease your schedule at your discretion: choose opportunities that best fit your schedule.
* Ability to grow professionally.
* Access to a broad array of client opportunities.

COMPANY MISSION
Delta-T Group's mission is to provide cost-effective, reliable, and innovative referral solutions for the social-services, behavioral-health, allied-health and special-education fields, for the betterment of those needing care and support.

Title: Special Education - Teacher's Assistant

Class:

Type: CONTRACT

Ref. No.: 1270521-20

BC: #DTG113

Company: Delta-T Group Virginia, Inc.

Contract Contact: Contract Submit VA

Office Email: VAContracts@deltatg.com

Office Phone: 800-533-8180

Office Address: 1952 Gallows Road, Suite 100, Vienna, VA 22182

About Us: Each Delta-T Group office is separately incorporated. Delta-T Group is a referral service for self-employed independent contractors seeking behavioral healthcare education and social service supplemental marketplace opportunities. Delta-T cannot guarantee any number or duration of referrals or opportunities as a result of your registration. When and if opportunities become available, you may accept or decline such referrals at your sole discretion.