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December 1, 2026
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Using AI Tools to Increase PHYSICAL EDUCATION Learning and Enhance Teacher Productivity (Grades K-8)

Presented by Joanne Margaret Hynes-Hunter
Outstanding Physical Educator, International Presenter and Author

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Specifically Designed for Grades K-8 Physical Education Teachers and Specialists

  • Learn to make the best use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools through hands-on experiences using powerful strategies and protocols to enhance student engagement and learning in your grades K-8 physical education and adapted PE program
  • Pitfalls to avoid and solutions to ethical concerns using AI-powered tools and resources for physical education programs
  • Discover highly practical ways to increase teacher efficiency and productivity using AI, including automatic grading/feedback, creating assessments, rubrics, unit/lesson plans, in-class posters, event fliers, bulletin board pictures, generating IEPs, and much more!
  • Receive a comprehensive digital resource handbook packed with AI tools to streamline administrative tasks, enhance instruction, and elevate student learning in physical education

Practical Ideas and Strategies

This NEW seminar presented by award-winning physical educator Joanne Margaret Hynes-Hunter is an exciting opportunity to explore the latest outstanding developments in artificial intelligence and their specific applications in grades K-8 physical education programs. Experience hands-on activities, demonstrations, and modeling, including ways you can use AI to save valuable time on repetitive administrative tasks such as grading, lesson planning, creating activities, and more! Examine practical ways to increase student learning and motivation using AI. Discover common pitfalls to avoid and solutions to ethical concerns using AI-powered tools and resources. You will leave with concrete, actionable strategies and skills you can implement immediately.

Join Joanne for a FUN, hands-on day filled with practical ways to make best use of AI tools to strengthen your students' learning, enhance your instruction, and improve your productivity in your physical education program.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

  1. Make Best Use of AI Tools In Your Physical Education Program
    Essential, practical ways to harness AI tools in your physical education program … Explore the best, most useful FREE AI tools for increasing student learning while increasing your productivity
  2. Quickly Create Highly Engaging and Quality Physical Education Lessons
    Enhance students' interest and motivation by easily curating standards-based physical education content … Construct fun, highly engaging learning activities – with just a few clicks
  3. Increase Your Own Productivity and Efficiency
    Use FREE AI tools to improve your efficiency by automating administrative tasks such as writing emails/letters to parents, lesson planning, and creating content materials like worksheets and rubrics … Regain valuable teaching and learning time
  4. Easily Differentiate Your Instruction
    Customize instruction for ALL students, making PE more inclusive and accessible, including for students with disabilities, motor delays, language barriers, and advanced skills … Promote active learning and improve retention of key concepts, while better addressing physical, cognitive, and social-emotional needs
  5. Promote Innovation in Your Physical Education Program
    Explore specific cutting-edge AI tools perfect for grades K-8 PE that foster creativity in teaching and learning … Create skill performance videos that automatically translate with lip syncing while retaining the speaker's original voice and turn any YouTube video into a quiz – your students will thank you!
  6. Enhance Student Engagement and Learning with AI-Powered Gamification, Escape Rooms, and MORE!
    Implement AI as a virtual coach, providing individualized guidance to students during physical activities and exercises … Generate extraordinary standards-based learning experiences, including gamification, escape rooms, virtual field trips, themed field days/ stations, while integrating academic subjects with PE such as reading and STEM – making your PE program more interactive and engaging
  7. Inspire Your Unmotivated Students Using AI
    Learn how to use AI to encourage unmotivated students and foster a love of physical activity that extends beyond school and into everyday life
  8. Invigorate Your Assessments with AI Power
    Integrate AI-powered tools that automatically grade tests (including essays), reducing the time spent on manual evaluations … Explore how AI creates unique assessments and rubrics using prompts, including exit tickets, retrospective activities, simulations, and more
  9. Avoid and Address Potential Pitfalls and Ethical Concerns
    AI opens exciting new opportunities but also raises new challenges … Explore solutions to potential pitfalls and ethical concerns, and ways to promote the responsible use of AI among your physical education students
  10. Extensive AI in PE Digital Resource Handbook and Special Online Access
    You'll receive a highly practical digital resource handbook packed with FREE AI tools, bots, apps, prompt library for physical educators, and resources perfect for using AI in your physical education program to increase student learning and enhance teacher productivity … Receive special online access to Joanne's Google Drive full of additional digital resources tailored to PE and national/state standards

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately


Here's what you'll learn:

  • The best, most useful AI tools to enhance instruction and productivity, and increase students' learning in your K-8 physical education program
  • How to integrate AI into your PE curricula … you need not start from scratch – create entire curricular, unit, and lesson plans in SECONDS!
  • Ways to use powerful AI in tools your school already has including Gamma, Perplexity, Padlet, Magic School, Brisk, and more!
  • Numerous ideas to foster creativity and innovation in your physical education program using AI platforms and applications
  • How to craft AI prompts so you can get the information/response you want – the first time
  • AI-driven ways to help you easily differentiate your instruction and provide feedback to better support all students, including those with special needs, multilingual students, young learners, and students with advanced skills
  • Methods for using AI to streamline administrative tasks like writing emails/letters to parents, grading, creating lesson plans, building tournament schedules, creating assessments, and course content materials
  • How to integrate AI into your PE program: current developments, challenges, and opportunities
  • Ways to customize instruction and provide feedback tailored to students' specific interests, preferences, and learning styles
  • How to save time designing/creating event flyers, content posters, bulletin board visuals, and worksheets using AI

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

I want to extend a warm invitation to my upcoming seminar on the game-changing potential of artificial intelligence (AI) specifically to enhance our work as physical educators. I know firsthand the challenges we face in helping all students reach their full potential. I am excited to show you how AI can be a powerful ally in this quest.

During the seminar, we will explore the exciting possibilities of AI in all aspects of physical education, focusing on how it can enhance student learning and performance. Additionally, we'll examine how AI can greatly reduce the workload of time-consuming administrative tasks, such as writing emails/letters to parents, lesson planning (including gamification, escape rooms, themed field days, and integration with academic areas), grading, assessment/rubric creation, IEP development, flyer design, producing skill-based content videos, and much more – all in just SECONDS!

Through interactive and hands-on activities, we will explore practical strategies to help you easily integrate AI tools into your everyday work as a physical educator. You'll receive valuable resources including a digital handbook filled with practical tools, ideas, resources, updated apps, prompts for PE use, and an Annotated Bibliography spreadsheet, updated with FREE AI tools you can apply immediately in your own physical education setting.

Join me and learn how to unlock the potential of AI in your grades K-8 physical education program. Gain the knowledge and tools you need to stay ahead of the curve in the rapidly evolving world of AI. Both you and your students will be happy you did!

Sincerely,
Joanne Margaret Hynes-Hunter

P.S. In this active, hands-on seminar, you'll learn practical ways to use AI in your physical education program and will leave ready to hit the ground running!

Who Should Attend

Grades K-8 Physical Education Teachers and Specialists

About BER Live Online Events

With the current health challenges, all BER in-person PD events are currently being presented in a Live Online format:

  • Outstanding Instructors
    All programs are led by outstanding BER national trainers
  • Extensive Resource Handbooks
    You'll have access to an extensive digital Resource Handbook before, during and after your seminar
  • Highly Interactive
    You'll be able to ask questions in real time and interact with the instructor and other participants
  • Program Guarantee
    As we have for 49 years, we guarantee the high quality of our programs. If you are not satisfied, we'll give you a 100% refund.

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive AI in Physical Education Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. Included in the handbook are:

  • FREE Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and apps you can immediately incorporate into your own teaching practice
  • Full prompts and strategies for using AI tools to create engaging physical education unit and lesson plans, fliers, field day events, tournament scheduling, content/skill videos, assessments/rubrics, and activities that meet diverse student needs
  • Best practices for promoting responsible use of AI in physical education
  • Ways to use AI to automate otherwise time-consuming administrative tasks, giving you back valuable time

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in making best use of AI tools in grades K-8 physical education programs.

Consultation Available
Dr. Joanne Margaret Hynes-Hunter will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

Semester Credit Option
UMASS Logo Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements
Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

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