Educational Assistant III at Willamette High School - Two

7 Hour Educational Assistant III

Willamette High School – Eugene, Oregon (Bethel School District 52). Two positions available for the 2026-27 school year, start September 8, 2026. Applications accepted until filled.

Job : 5735182

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Posted: May 22, 2026 7:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Sep 8, 2026

Bethel School District is seeking qualified applicants for two 7 hour Educational Assistant III positions for the Bethel Transition Network at Willamette High School. These positions begin in September 2026 with possible training in August 2026.

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.

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 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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…