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?

Pointy - of course!!!!! It has taken me many years to perfect my "hard stare", and of course we are recommended to wear "non-clicky shoes" in case we distract the students. Same goes for swishy skirts in vibrant colours.

that rules out a hula skirt then. I'll leave my ukulele at home

lol at swishy skirts in vibrant colours! Are they a distraction then??
Our current band of invigilators are very much of the tweed skirt and sensible lace ups variety so no danger of distraction there.

Spot checks means one visit during the whole year... invigilators are not interviewed.

Our spot check was during one of my sessions, and I was very pleased to be standing up well away from the teacher's desk at the time! The only thing the inspector asked about me was if I was the mother of any of the candidates

As teachers, we don't get particular training in invigilations (and I go back to my days in state school when teachers did invigilate). It is common sense, really.

Reading the regulations is something to be left for an actual exam - especially one that you have no clue about.

Some of it is common sense, but the regulations are extremely thorough, and if they're not adhered to stringently then the exam could be invalidated, which potentially buggers things up for quite a lot of students. Spot checks will show up if a procedure isnt being followed correctly.. and the whole point of them is that you dont know when they will occur, so exams need to be running smoothly all the time.
It makes a lot more sense for teachers to be free to do what they are trained in rather than invigilate, but god I miss the games sometimes.....
We now have to get by on briefing and staff meeting games.... shall we start a thread on those??!!

Apparently swishy skirts in loud colours could be a distraction. I now go soberly dressed (boring) but can't resist sequinned, sparkly shoes (non-clicky of course!)

how about sneaking in with a pair of those pixie ears? Live dangerously

Didn't realise invigilators got so much training! When I was a teacher and did it we got none. We had the regulations in front of us - agree with scienceteacher, normally something to flick through during a aprticularly tedous invigilation! It os mainly common sense though.

Hahahaha! I think that's absolutely hysterical. If you'd ever invigilated weeks of exams, you'd know exactly why they were doing it.

yabu.

I think it makes them seem more human.

pointy - tempting, very tempting. I'll consider it. Might just have to stick with the sparkly shoes though.