Demonstration of Illinois Professional Teaching Standards
 
5. Learning Environment:
The teacher uses an understanding of individual and group motivation and behavior to create a learning environment that encourages positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self-motivation.

 
 
 
 
 

For this standard, I have included an assignment that I created for a sophomore English class.  Students were supposed to work in partners to create a "found poem"
  out of the poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."