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So nice to meet you!
So nice to meet you!
My name is Ms. Kate Watson and I have been teaching visual art for 25 years. I have been at Harvest ever since it opened in 2006. I hold a bachelor's of science in elementary education and a master's of art in art education. I firmly believe in teaching the creative design process. The process, not the product, is what I focus on in my teaching practice.
Additional art responsibilities outside of Harvest: I am currently serving as the Past President of the Utah Art Education Association. It is an honor to serve the art educators of the state of Utah!
In my personal life, am a portrait artist working in oils and watercolors. I am also a potter with Feral Clay Studio in South Salt Lake. And I love to knit. Basically, I love to create! You can see my most recent work here.
I am the proud mother of three grown children. My daughter is a surgical nurse at Nephi Hospital. Her husband is also a nurse and is a trauma unit manager at Holy Cross in Lehi. He is also currently working on a double masters program in nursing and hospital administration. My son is currently serving as a sergeant in the Army. His wife owns a hair salon. I also have a stepson and his wife living in northern Idaho. He owns and operates a crane business. I am excited for all of their futures!
My favorite non-art related pastimes when I do have spare time are reading, hiking, swimming, and kayaking.
CHOICE BASED ART EDUCATION
CHOICE BASED ART EDUCATION
Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB) is a philosophical approach to art education that places children at the center of art making choices. The foundation for this education model builds on three principles, known as the Three-Sentence TAB Curriculum:
What do artists do?
The child is the artist.
The classroom is the child’s studio.
The Three-Sentence TAB Curriculum guides every decision that TAB teachers make as they design learning environments, plan curricula, write individual lesson plans, consider students’ needs, and order supplies. Students in Teaching for Artistic Behavior programs experience artistic thinking and making through self-direction and teachers respond to their progress with a flexible curriculum that adapts to their emergent ideas. TAB teachers believe in the child as the artist and embrace the thinking and artwork that emerges both in and out of art class.
ART INTEGRATION
ART INTEGRATION
I work closely with the core teachers to offer integrated lessons that use Visual Art in conjunction with Language Art, Math, Science, or Social Studies. This is a fantastic opportunity to build brain connections across the curriculum, address the needs of the whole child, and teach to the need for design based thought processes critical in the 21st century.
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