In thinking exam invigilators should not be playing Battleships?

[mamhaf]

DD is doing end-of-year-10 exams.

The school hall is laid out in grid formation.

She thought she'd done something wrong when one of the teachers who was supervising a language exam today stood right next to her desk, with the grid in his hand and an orange blob on her position.

The other examiner nodded and smiled at the teacher by her desk.

Dd and some of her friends later worked out the examiners had been playing Battleships - Dd was a ship.

Dd is laughing about it, and it is quite amusing, but I'm not so sure teachers should be treating the exams with such levity.

What do you think?

Invigilating is BORING ... for hours at a time, usually!

They weren't harming the kids - still wandering round checking etc. No harm done IMO

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No harm done. Teachers are only human.

I think this was posted in b3ta.com originally.

YABU. As long as they aren't disturbing the students there's nothing wrong with it IMO.

Oh, they have always done it, from time immemorial! I'm seeing a teacher friend this weekend who used to tell us some very silly tales about all the things invigilators get up to - just be glad it was battleships...

helping yourself to the students' sweets off their desks...

No harm in end of year exams - the coke thing in A levels sounds a bit nasty though - especially when one point could mean the difference between the grade you need to get t university & missing out

"...Also done things which intringued the students like:

Walking up and down and suddenly stopping and staring at the ceiling for a few minutes then waiting for the pupils to look up and wonder what you are looking at. Then walking on and looking at their faces of bemusement.

Also standing at the back of the hall and rolling a tennis ball slowly down the aisles and watching the kids heads all watch the ball go rolling by and knowing that they couldnt turn round to see who it was doing it."

PMSL!!!

We used to have 'who can give out the most paper', 'who can get to the raised hand first', 'stand by someone beginning with a', etc etc.

It is SO dull. When they are public exams (ie GCSE and A2), then you are not allowed to take ANYTHING in - no reading matter or anything, and can be there for 3 hours in a go which is terrifyingly dull.

hmm now realised why I had so many invigilators near me when at school

Ignorance was bliss!

when the PE dept were invigilating they used to play chase...

LOL; this takes me back to when I was teaching and had to do exam invigilators.

Ideally they should avoid letting the kids know what they are doing though

No harm done - and it really is boring to do exam invigialation!

When i was at school taking my GCSE's a teacher known to be abit dippy fell asleep and when she woke up she went round pointing out a few mistakes people had made.
She didn't even get into trouble.

Also in our maths non calculator i pointed out to a teacher someone had one and she didn't do anything and when i complained at the end i was told it was too late.

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The secret world of teaching. Just found the discussion on tes.

I'd be quite p*d off if they did it during a GCSE/A'level exam - no matter how boring...dd was a bit distracted by it today, not enough to influence her work though.

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Not professional, but if wasn't a public exam, it's not important.

I certainly worked through our recent internal exams, but dutifully did my GCSE and GCE invigilation giving it 100% (and bored to tears).

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we do all our own invigilation, and often it's just one of us in the room, so no one to play games with. I count the dots on the ceiling, recall lyrics of old songs, name the US states in alphabetical order forward and back.

The worst exams are things like history where the paper gives one sentence. Mathematics is good because you can do the problems

are u in a private school science then