Teacher Support For Student Motivation In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

Teacher support for student motivation is huge. Whether you are focusing on elementary, middle school, high school, or college, students need to feel supported and motivated by their teachers and educators. Motivation includes the want or desires to accomplish a task that is assigned or required in school, regardless of one’s grade or level of education. In To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee, Scout tells the readers all about her life of growing up during 1930 in the small southern town of Maycomb. She lives with her father, Atticus Finch, and her brother Jem. Her stories are about many different encounters between her community, family life, and her school. During one of the first days of school, Scout’s teacher, Miss Caroline told Scout to tell her father not to teach her anymore because it is interfering with her reading (Lee, 1960, p. 22). Scout replied by explaining that, “Atticus ain’t got time to teach me anything. Why, he’s so tired at night he just sits in the living room and reads” (Lee, p. 22). This leads to the research of literature on parent and teacher support for student motivation in formal education with a focus on the reading curriculum.

71). In schools, as teachers, we strive to motivate our students to be lifelong learners. Motivation can be both extrinsic and intrinsic. Articles will show research and literature written about parent and teacher support with extrinsic student motivation. When connecting Ryan and Deci’s (2000) idea of extrinsic motivation, I came across the article How Children’s Motivations Relate to