There are many ways you can find and complete Professional Learning opportunities:
Check our AECENL's website calendar and links for PL opportunities from other organizations and associations in NL. If you are not sure if a PL event would count as PL hours feel free to contact either the Registrar.
To ensure that a webinar will be eligible for PL hours, documentation that confirms the participant's registration and completion of the webinar is required. The documentation needs to include the participant's name, host or facilitator's name, topic covered (topic must have child care focus), time and date of the workshop. This documentation can be found in the participant's registration confirmation email and the "thank-you" for participating email that is sent after the webinar. These two emails need to be printed and saved as documentation. Sometimes a webinar will issue PL certificate, we do not accept them as original PL documentation.
If you are not able to watch the webinar after registering because of the time of day or for other reasons some organizations will send a “sorry you missed the webinar” e-mail that includes a link to the webinar recording. In order to have a recorded webinar be counted as PL you are still required to register for the webinar and print the registration confirmation e-mail, along with printing the “sorry you missed the event” e-mail and then print the PL certificate that is available after watching the recording ( it is the only time we accept a webinar PL certificate). The reason for not accepting the PL certificate on its own is because it is a blank template where you type in your own name and in the past people have used it to provide PL to other people who have not viewed the webinar. Whenever in doubt regarding the eligibility of a PL event please contact the Registrar at (1-877 toll free) 579-3004.