Bethel School District is seeking qualified applicants for a temporary 6 hour per day Educational Assistant VI at Cascade Middle School.

Bethel Schools are committed to creating safe, caring, mutually respectful environments where all students are honored and valued for their diverse cultural backgrounds, strengths and abilities in every instructional practice and school activity to support academic achievement and student success.

Nature of Work

An Educational Assistant VI requires bilingual abilities for the classification. An Educational assistant VI provides individual and small group support and personal assistance, often in an English Language Development class, small speech/language class, standard or special purpose educational program, to students with distinct and exceptional educational needs and challenges as determined by a licensed specialist. The primary purpose of positions in this class, which distinguishes it from positions of other classes, is to screen and assess the educational needs of students, provide instructional assistance to students in a classroom, and charting and recording results. Clerical and word processing or computer data base updating duties may be assigned to positions as time permits, but are not considered primary tasks and do not require a large percentage of time. A position of this class require bilingual abilities. 

A position of this class may be assigned full-time to a student with a physical impairment that requires the employee to assist with school tasks the student cannot perform, such as attending class and taking notes; carrying books; adapting written school materials; personal cleanliness and hygiene; administering medication; setting up or operating specially adapted equipment; food preparation and feeding the student; and assisting the student to communicate with teachers, classmates, and others.

A position of this class may tutor students, individually or in small groups, providing instructional assistance in a variety of subjects or courses; administers and scores standardized tests; and maintains student records in conformance with government regulations.

Examples of Work

These duties are illustrative only. Other duties may be assigned.

• Determines students' educational needs by assisting a teacher with administering, scoring test results; maintains and updates student daily progress records; keeps records on test scores, grades, attendance and other related data in compliance with government funding and program requirements.
• Assists in developing lesson plans for students, prepares instructional materials, provides instructional assistance to students, tutors students, reads and paraphrases tests, and provides assistance in problem solving skills.
• Provides assistance in language, visual, gross and fine motor, and sensory skills, using a variety of developmental learning materials; develops students' reading, math, spelling, handwriting, art and music skills; performs math and reading timings, charts results in student folders, and updates computer database and other required record keeping.
• Observes and participates in recording student progress and correcting papers, confers and consults regularly with teachers about problems encountered with students, and shares behavioral and academic observations of individual students with the instructor.
• Translating materials, communicating with families in their native language and assisting licensed speech-language pathologists in meeting student IEP goals.

Selection Factors

• Knowledge of educational programs offered in all schools and of basic educational techniques, as required by the position
• Knowledge of the basic developmental stages of a child's learning process
• Ability to schedule the workload and meet the needs of the program
• Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions
• Ability to work with small groups and individual students in special programs
• Ability to prepare materials for lesson plans
• Ability to interact positively with children and adults, and observe individual student abilities
• Ability to work with a minimum of supervision
• Ability to learn safe lifting and proper physical positioning techniques to place students in student desks or in passenger vehicles, as required by the position
• Ability to operate standard office and audio-visual equipment safely and proficiently, as required by the position
• Ability to maintain an appropriate and legal level of confidentiality regarding students, staff, and other individuals.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with teachers, students, administrators, parents, and co-workers.
• Ability to maintain regular, predictable and prompt attendance.            

Minimum Qualifications

High school diploma or equivalent. Previous course work and training, or child development, childcare or instructional assistance experience that demonstrates possession of the knowledge and abilities needed to perform the work. Ability to prove Highly Qualified status under NCLB, or pass Bethel School District’s “Highly Qualified Assessment”. Any satisfactory equivalent combination of experience and training that ensures the ability to perform the work may be substituted for the required experience. 

For information regarding this position please email Ry Robinson at  ry.robinson@bethel.k12.or.us, Principal at Cascade Middle School.  

To apply, please follow the link to TalentEd Recruit and Hire.

Bilingual candidates and candidates experienced in working with bilingual students and families will receive preferential consideration.

If you are an in-district employee and wish to be considered for this position, please indicate your interest in writing to Remie Calalang, Assistant Superintendent, by 4:00 p.m., January 25, 2024.

CLOSING DATE: Open until filled

Bethel School District 52 complies with provisions of the various civil rights laws, such as the Fair Employment Practices Act,

Title IX regulations, and Section 504 of PL93.112 in employment and educational programs and activities.

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