Special Education Paraprofessional

Job Description

Job Description

Location : Norfolk, VA 23502

Date Posted : 5 / 27 / 2024

Category :

Education : HS Graduate / GED

With over 35 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 Paraprofessional. The client is looking for Special Education Paraprofessionals in Norfolk, VA

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 Paraprofessional

Class : Type : CONTRACT

Type : CONTRACT

Ref. No. : 1270520-21

BC : #DTG113

Company : Delta-T Group Virginia, Inc.

Contract Contact : Contract Submit VA

Office Email : [email protected]

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.