To use something as the template or model for the way in which something else is created or developed. The mayor's ambitious social security plan is modeled after a similar system already in place in Sweden.You can model your lesson plans after ones from previous teachers.
model someone on someone
and model something on something
to use something as a pattern for something; to use someone as a pattern for someone. I will model my house on the house we saw in the Mediterranean.She tried to model herself on her mother.
model on
v.
To form, develop, or found something on the basis of something else: The architect modeled the plans for the new school on a beautiful old building.