Educational Assistant II

Starting Date: Sep 8, 2026

Bethel School District is seeking qualified applicants for a 6-hour Educational Assistant II at Fairfield Elementary 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.

An Educational Assistant II provides individual and small‑group support and personal assistance, often in a standard or special‑purpose educational program, to students with distinct and exceptional educational needs and challenges as determined by a certificated specialist. The primary purpose of positions in this class is to screen and assess the educational needs of students, provide instructional assistance in a classroom, and chart and record results.

Clerical and word‑processing or computer database updating duties may be assigned as time permits but are not considered primary tasks.

A position may be assigned full‑time to a student with a physical impairment requiring 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 may tutor students, individually or in small groups, providing instructional assistance in a variety of subjects or courses; administer and score standardized tests; and maintain student records in conformance with government regulations.

• Determines students' educational needs by assisting a teacher with administering, scoring test results; maintains and updates 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.

• 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 establish and maintain effective working relationships with teachers, students, administrators, parents and co‑workers.
• 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 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.

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