Life Skills Assistant - Two

Starting Date: Sep 8, 2026

Bethel School District is seeking qualified applicants for a 6.5 hour per day Life Skills Assistant for Irving Elementary School. There are two positions available.

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.

A Life Skills Assistant 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.

A position of this class may be assigned full‑time to student(s) 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.

An employee in this class will utilize knowledge and skills gained from trainings such as Students and Youth with Needs that are Complex (SYNC), Functional Behavioral Assessment, and other trainings as identified by licensed specialist and administrators.

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 database 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 effective strategies for behavior management and support.
• Ability to assist in preparing materials for lesson plans.
• Ability to interact positively with children and adults, and observe individual student behaviors and 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 maintain an appropriate and legal level of confidentiality regarding students, staff, and other…