A development focus is a teacher improvement goal, targeting either a whole element from the Model for Great Teaching, or a particular part of an element.
A development focus is a specific area of teaching practice to be worked on throughout a development cycle of improvement (e.g., focus, prepare, then integrate into teaching practice). Teachers can select and adapt classroom strategies (or design their own from scratch), and then implement them in their classroom.
All users of the platform - teachers and Coordinators in a school, and individual teachers alike - can set a development focus, and track progress towards achieving these these in the "Development cycles" area of the platform.
We suggest that a development focus is best set in the second or third term, once teachers are familiar with the platform.