School development strategies are non-subject- or phase-specific teaching strategies which can be adapted and adopted by teachers in their own context. You will encounter plenty of these in the GTT Courses!
Great Teaching Coordinators can add school development strategies by heading to the "School management" page and then on the orange "Start planning" button under the Planning and Implementation heading They should scroll down to the School development strategy section then click "+ Create strategy" to open a dialog box.
Here, you can include a name for the strategy, a short description, any resources (blogs, articles, podcasts about the strategy), and "working steps" that teachers will enact to implement the strategy. The example below comes from our Dimension 3 - Maximising opportunity to learn course.
The platform will be populated with some of these development strategies to begin with, and we will add to them over time so you have a bank of tried and tested strategies to work from.
Once a school development strategy has been added, teachers (and coordinators) can select it to work on in the “Prepare” step on their “Development cycles” page, where they can also add their own personal strategies.