The phrase "as a kind of model" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing something that serves as an example or representation of a particular concept or idea.
Example: "The prototype was developed as a kind of model for future designs in the industry."
Alternatives: "as a type of example" or "as a form of representation".
So, think of this lecture, as I go through it, as a kind of model.
It is hence tempting to see it as a kind of model for other such operations.
Onagawa, alone among them, has remade itself as a kind of model village for the reconstruction process: rebuilding by way of rebranding.
Experimental studies of daydreaming may serve as a kind of model for the sort of laboratory research that might be done on absorption.
There are hints throughout "London Bridges" that Dickens's "Bleak House" -- with its sprawling cast, its liberal use of coincidence and its complicated legal disputes over the administration of a trust -- served as a kind of model for the novel.
It is a great tribute to our founders that 224 years later this nation is now looked to by the peoples on every other continent and the peoples from every part of this earth as a kind of model for what their future could be.
I guess they still thought of themselves as a leader of some global movement, and still thought of themselves as being a kind of model for the Third World.
As a paean to Central Park, it can be seen as a kind of artificial model of an artificial model of nature.
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences — where things turn out better than you thought they would — ought to be in there somewhere, too.
So Gallagher, who attends four to six group meetings per month, vets new members and, more important, serves as a kind of role model for each support circle as it is forming.
Not only was intelligence cherry-picked to support noisily argued but fallacious theories about weapons of mass destruction and Iraq-Al Qaeda ties, but the war itself seems to have been regarded by some members of the White House and the Pentagon as a kind of demonstration model of their ideas about pre-emptive war, unilateral action and the export of democracy.
