Explaining and modeling are practices for making a wide variety of topics, academic practices, and strategies explicit to students. The teacher determines when explaining or modeling can help to make explicit content and practices that often remain tacit or invisible. A teacher might use simple explanations when working with straightforward content, but choose modeling (which includes verbal explanation, but also thinking aloud and demonstrating) when sharing the metacognitive process. To do this, a teacher believes models and explanations are critical for providing access to all students. (Adapted from TeachingWorks High Leverage Practices)

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