Continuing Education Hours for Staff Presented Programs

If your department or office is providing training to other staff members I wanted to remind you of a few things.

Any training that offers continuing education hours for staff needs to be approved by SD&T for those hours to count for r-certification.

Just send me a draft of your CEU form before your program and I'll check that it meets state requirements.  Forms not meeting the requirements will be discarded when they are received by our office even if staff have completed the program.

Actually, if everyone remembers to do this it cancels out the other things I wanted to mention.  Just be sure that I get a look at your forms before you send them out to participants.  Thanks.

Lisa

Learning Portfolios Presentation Now on the Forms Page

I created a brief presentation to go over the process of the Learning Portfolio creation and approval.  You might want to view this before you download the Learning Portfolio forms and instructions.  As always, direct any questions to SD&T.

Lisa

Learning Portfolio Form

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X9pbM4AlJujmqDPIAonLVygEIez1UCnS/edit#heading=h.gjdgxs

Social Distancing at the Library - 6 feet everyone

 

Continuing education credits for recordings and webinars

 Many staff members are currently participating in webinars, SkillSoft training, and other online programs including recorded conference sessions.

If you are attending a session that provides a completion certificate or confirmation email, then you should attach this to your CEU form and submit a copy to your supervisor.  If you are using the program for continuing education credit then you should also submit a copy to SD&T.  

If you are watching a pre-recorded webinar or a recorded conference session, or any program that does not provide proof of completion, you should follow the "Recorded Webinars" procedure.  This information can be found on the Forms page of the SD&T blog  http://learning.prattlibrary.org/p/forms.html

If you are not certain that a program meets the criteria for continuing education credit, please send a link to the program to SD&T.

Renewals for the upcoming year - SkillSoft etc.

Maryland State Library has renewed the licenses for the following programs for the upcoming year, so we will continue to have free access to these programs for all EPFL staff.  

If you need to register for SkillSoft just let me know and I'll create an account for you.  The others have self-registration.  Just click on the link below to access.

Lisa

SkillSoft

Web Junction

Ryan Dowd, Librarian's Guide to Homelessness

Niche Academy/PCI and Ryan Dowd logins

 I'm not sure why we don't get both sets of webinars when we log in to NicheAcademy, but if you are having difficulty, here are instructions.

• Log into your NicheAcademy Account
• In the upper right corner you'll see the link to your account (looks like a little person)
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• Click on the link and you should get a drop down menu.  Select "My Niche"
• On the right side of the page select the "Academies" option
• You should then get this screen

• Maryland Libraries Training takes you to the Dowd webinars
• Maryland Libraries PCI Academy takes you to the other available webinars

You can go back and forth between the academies via the My Niche/Academies option

Links for Problem Behaviors Webinar and Quiz

 As we prepare for the next steps in our reopening plans, SD&T has identified a webinar to help prepare everyone for the eventual re-entry of our customers.  This webinar  “How To Deal With Problem Behaviors Related to COVID-19” will be required viewing by all employees.  The presenter, Ryan Dowd, is the author of The Librarian’s Guide to Homelessness and a trainer who focuses on how to compassionately manage problem behaviors.  

This one hour program is designed to help you with difficult situations related to COVID-19 including patrons who refuse to wear a mask (or refuse to wear it correctly), methods to ensure social distancing with customers, and ways to manage someone who is showing possible symptoms.  The program will also review reasons why people might not be complying with policy and suggest some strategies for handling these situations.

 

The recorded webinar is available on the NicheAcademy website:

 https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3015832712254/WN_igsAhx1sRzaUnae6BTAdQQ

 

If you’ve never used NicheAcademy before you will need to register which will include sharing your name, email, and library system.  Once you register for this program, you will also have access to other NicheAcademy programs as provided through the Maryland State Library.

  

Once you complete the program, you will need to pass a short quiz to show that you understood the material.  You can find the quiz here: 

 

Quiz link:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9F36P9D