SECONDARY VISUAL ART UNITS
- Art units on this site can easily be adapted to the IBMYP program as well as any art program, grades 7-12.
- The units are written to be multi-cultural, process driven, and based on individual preferences, and research.
- Units are fully documented and include cultural context, theory, and technical skills, demonstrated in videos with most units.
I teach art as a continual movement between intuition and analysis, imagination and discipline, the irrational and the rational. Technique and cultural context matter, but only in order that something not previously known can emerge. Art is not primarily decoration, self-expression, or technique. It is a human way of knowing that is connected to a shared symbolic grammar.
About Kate Reynolds
Every teacher has their own way of working. In my career, I followed my own inclinations in the way I structured my classes, but I also accommodated the requirements of the school where I taught. I fit my own ideas within the structures of the British Curriculum, the Advanced Placement program, and the International Baccalaureate Program in Visual Art; both the Diploma program and the Middle Years Program.
Most of my teaching experience is within the IB structure.
I planned my curriculum around the identity of my students, modern and historical art movements, The local cultural context, and current events.
