Teaching Channel

I found the Teaching Channel to be a really helpful resource for coming up with lesson plan ideas. Just spending a half hour or so watching videos, exposes you to many different kinds of mediums, classrooms, teachers, and themes. One video that I found interesting was "School as Living Museum". This video profiles a school in San Diego that puts an emphasis on filling the entire school with artwork, not just artwork but work that is meaningful to the students who made it. In general, the great diversity of work that is shown on the walls of the school is pretty interesting and is definitely high quality in terms of materials, concept, and just visually. While I know the point of the video isn't necessarily to show a critical perspective or to provide a large lens of art classrooms in general, but the only thing that bothered me about it was that it kind of had a "look what we can do" sort of attitude without acknowledging the extreme amount of resources that the school seems to have access to. Not that this is necessarily a problem, I think this video serves as an excellent example of what can be done in a context where resources are plentiful and art is valued and a priority, seeing examples of that can be helpful to any art classroom. But some kind of acknowledgement of the different amount of access to resources might have been nice in this example and could have helped to alleviate the sense that they were giving themselves a giant pat on the back, which honestly isn't completely undeserved in my opinion.