What will examiners find difficult to do in the clinics they lead?
I’m just talking interaction with people. There are still some who only answer questions with questions, and seem to be irritated that it’s not the early 1990’s when ski instructors had some standing. The idea that they’re now going to get “impact” statements about their behavior is interesting and even comical. I know at least one who has gotten “official” complaints for decades through the proper channels. I can’t say it’s done that much, and personally I don’t have a big issue with it. It is what it is. But there’s not much discussion possible. I’ll get that somewhere else.
Exams are not an easy process to do, I really didn’t have many issues with the whole thing. Issues I’ve had- we get told one thing by the examiner, another by the understudy on tasks to do. Naturally, we listen to the examiner. Hearing about that,(he changed the task after understudy went down), and other issues that had to do with skiing, not teaching, was a real head scratcher.
Being told we had to teach somewhere where both of us said it was very unsafe and we would
never teach there. Then in the written eval, laughably, first thing was “safety was a real issue”.
As for feedback in exams, it’s what I hear from others. Going to
multiple exams, even exam prep, and never getting what exactly to work on. Not much beyond, “come work with me” at their mountain.
SBI was in that video. Maybe it’s somewhere written now, don’tknow.
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