Bethel School District is seeking qualified applicants for a 7 hour per day Educational Assistant III for the Bethel Transition Network Willamette High 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 III provides individual and small group support and personal assistance, often in a general education or special education program, to students with distinct and exceptional behavioral 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 implement specific protocol in individualized behavior intervention plans, provide active supervision to students with such plans, and maintain student progress data.

A position of this class may provide support to students in 1:1, small group, or large group settings, implementing classroom behavior protocols and individual interventions.  This may include supporting an individual student full time in one program or across programs, a small group of students in one program, multiple students in multiple programs, or assisting in a classroom during the implementation of a behavior intervention plan.  An employee of this class may also collect assessment information and progress data from behavior intervention plans, student, staff and parent interviews, archival reviews, observations, and academic assessments.

An employee in this class will utilize knowledge and skills gained from trainings such as Oregon Intervention System, Functional Behavioral Assessment, and other trainings as identified by licensed specialist and administrators.

Examples of Work

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

• Implements individualized behavior intervention plans that may include pre-correcting for expected behavior, providing social skills and anger management instruction, redirection, positive reinforcement and consequences.
• 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.
• Creating materials related to behavior intervention plans, such as point sheets, picture schedules, assignment sheets, and home-to-school communication systems.
• Observes and participates in recording student progress and correcting papers; confers and consults regularly with teachers about problems encountered with student, and shares behavioral and academic observations of individual students with the instructor and/or specialist.
• 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.

 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 verbal and written instructions.
• Ability to learn the duties of the position after a brief orientation period.
• 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 establish and maintain effective working relationships with teachers, students, administrators, parents and co-workers.
• Ability to safely and proficiently operate standard office and audio-visual equipment, as required by the position.
• Ability to maintain an appropriate and legal level of confidentiality regarding students, staff, and other individuals.
• 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. 

Upon offer of employment applicants must obtain a fingerprint clearance from the Oregon Department of Education through a process authorized by the Bethel School District. Applicants would be responsible for the one-time fingerprint clearance fee.

For information regarding this position please email Janay Stroup, Assistant Principal, Willamette High 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., on November 19, 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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