Teacher Assistant - Title I

Young World Physical Education

Norfolk (VA)

On-site

USD 26,725 - 42,981

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Young World Physical Education, located in Norfolk, Virginia, seeks a full-time Teacher Assistant to provide instructional support in various classroom settings. Responsibilities include monitoring student activities, assisting with special education, and performing clerical tasks. Candidates should have at least 60 college credit hours and 2 years of relevant experience. The role offers a salary range of $19.40 to $31.20 per hour, with obligations mainly within standard school hours over a 10-month school year.

Qualifications

At least 2 years of relevant experience preferred.
Completion of at least 60 college credit hours required.
Citizenship, residency, or work visa required.

Responsibilities

Provides instructional support to teachers and students.
Monitors student activities and assists children with disabilities.
Operates office equipment and assists in administrative tasks.
Escorts students during activities and maintains records.

Skills

Relevant experience

Instructional support

Monitoring student activities

Ability to work with special education

Therapeutic crisis intervention

Education

Associate degree preferred

Job description

Job Description

Full-Time and Permanent; 6.5 Hours/Day; 182 Days/Year; 10 Months/Year; Grade:GG

General Responsibilities

The teacher assistant provides instructional support to teachers in the daily management and instruction of students. An employee in this class is responsible for performing instructional and clerical tasks to relieve teacher of routine activities and to help carry out daily classroom activities. A teacher assistant may be assigned to locations such as pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, regular general education classrooms, and certain special education classrooms, or a computer learning center/lab (except those where a teacher is not present during instructional periods. All important aspects of the work are subject to detailed and specific procedures.

Education and Experience

Requires 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. At least two years of experience working with children; to include experience working with special education students in a classroom setting.

Essential Job Functions

Performs designated learning tasks with students such as demonstrating or explaining lessons, prompting students, monitoring tests, and/or using supplementary materials; supervises other instructional tasks.
Monitors student activities, observes and reports students' learning; reads to students.
Attends to children with certain disabilities (including LD, MR, ED, and PH); may serve part-time in an alternative learning class.
Operates office equipment such as typewriter, duplicator, photocopier, word processors and printers, projectors, and other audio-visual equipment.
Maintains bulletin boards, student records of attendance, lunch tickets and health charts, and classroom supplies.
Assists in performing therapeutic crisis intervention.
Performs a wide variety of monitoring, record keeping, and file maintenance for an accelerated learning program.
Escorts and assists students in physical and playground activities, to lunchroom, to resource classes, to the library, and to restrooms, escorts students on field trips.
May work with individual or groups of students requiring close attention; helps students with physical disabilities; and/or attends to students' physical and sanitation needs.
Monitors children on playground, or in room when teacher is not present (IEP conferences, parent conferences, etc.) and performs morning and afternoon bus duty monitoring.
Performs additional duties as assigned.