A major part of New Century Classroom is to provide a place to inservice teachers in curriculum that is on the cutting edge of high technology. NCC is well stocked to meet that goal. Schools can come and test what they might be thinking about purchasing. Another mission of New Century Classroom is to train teachers to use high-tech equipment they might not be familiar with. Say a school district decides to buy a projecting microscope.
Teachers can come here and learn how to use and take care of that microscope.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, New Century Classroom is a place to help teachers regardless of the equipment available to them. On any given week night or weekend day, you can find teachers and administrators at NCC taking one of many inservice classes offered throughout the year. A recent semester's courses included a general introduction to using the Internet, specialized introductions to Internet for elementary and secondary teachers, technology across the curriculum, using multimedia in elementary classrooms, and integrating math manipulatives with technology. In some of the classes, children teach adults, and when the adults see that the kids are able to use these technologies with such ease, they feel they have to learn to do it themselves. D'Al ne School District, considers NCC a great resource.