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Adapted Physical Education Specialists
Provide individualized physical education instruction or services to children, youth, or adults with exceptional physical needs due to gross motor developmental delays or other impairments.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Provide adapted physical education services to students with intellectual disabilities, autism, traumatic brain injury, orthopedic impairments, or other disabling condition.Mostly human for now
- 02Provide students positive feedback to encourage them and help them develop an appreciation for physical education.Mostly human for now
- 03Provide individual or small groups of students with adapted physical education instruction that meets desired physical needs or goals.Mostly human for now
- 04Instruct students, using adapted physical education techniques, to improve physical fitness, gross motor skills, perceptual motor skills, or sports and game achievement.Mostly human for now
- 05Write reports to summarize student performance, social growth, or physical development.People already use AI for this at work
- 06Evaluate the motor needs of individual students to determine their need for adapted physical education services.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Establish and maintain standards of behavior to create safe, orderly, and effective environments for learning.Mostly human for now
- 08Collaborate with other educational personnel to provide inclusive activities or programs for children with disabilities.Mostly human for now
- 09Adapt instructional techniques to the age and skill levels of students.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Assist in screening or placement of students in adapted physical education programs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss3%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
48%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 66% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 30% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Provide adapted physical education services to students with intellectual disabilities, autism, traumatic brain injury, orthopedic impairments, or other disabling condition.
- Provide students positive feedback to encourage them and help them develop an appreciation for physical education.
- Provide individual or small groups of students with adapted physical education instruction that meets desired physical needs or goals.