Guest Speaker - Ken Jones

For my lecture on the 9th of January due to Andy's absense, Ken Jones came in the give us a lecture. I enjoyed this lecture and found it interesting as it was someone different who had a lot of experience in what he was talking about. The lecture included topics such as PISA international tests, the 3 key priorities and SEF (school effectiveness framework). Although we had previously done a bit of work on these topics Ken Jones gave us a lot more information about them with some interesting figures of the drops in PISA scores. He also gave us websites to look at including, www.sefcymru.org which I think will be interesting to read more into to understand it better. I also liked that Ken talked about local stratergies and policies aswell as national, and stratergies and policys in other countries. I hope in the future we are able to have another lecture from him.