Best practices are intended to support multilingual learners (MLs) in all classes, no matter their proficiency level. These strategies are expected to be used by all teachers within lessons, assignments, and assessments to support MLs and all learners. Best practices are strategies that educators can quickly implement within daily instruction, activities, and classroom assessments.

Description

Modeling for students should help to clarify the expectations of the task without giving away the answer. Models should be accessible to students throughout the task.

Examples:

• completing the first problem/task in a set as an example
• using sentence stems/frames
• providing visual models and explicit guidance on the expectations of the assignment through the visuals
• demonstrating how to complete the steps of a task through video
• chunking the steps of a complex problem or process
• using templates

	Teacher	Student
	The teacher models/demonstrates how to complete a complex task using visuals, relia, or other means to show a visual representation of the final product.	The student uses and refers to the model as they complete the task.

	Teacher	Student
	"Let's complete the first problem together." "Refer to this model as you complete the task."	"Could you provide an example?" "Can you help me complete the first problem?"

Recommended Domain(s)	Recommended Level(s)
Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing	All levels