Guided Language Acquisition Design (GLAD) is an instructional model with clear, practical strategies that promote positive, effective interactions among students and between teachers and students. GLAD develops metacognitive use of high level academic language and literacy. The strategies used in the model promote English language acquisition, academic achievement, and cross-cultural skills. GLAD is a United States Department of Education, OBEMLA, Project of Academic Excellence.
GLAD provides an organizational structure for integrated, balanced literacy. The integration of listening, speaking, reading, and writing into all content areas underscores research that language is acquired most effectively when the emphasis is on meaning. Language, any language, should be acquired while studying something of interest or something that applies to real life.
When visiting a classroom using GLAD strategies, you will notice high-level vocabulary, and walls "dripping with language." The GLAD model provides a language-rich constructive environment that instills the love and fun of learning!
For more information
Visit the Project GLAD website.
Read the District GLAD article