The first HUPE Zagreb branch meeting in school year 2023-2024 was held on 17 November 2023 at the Čarobna riječ. 32 English enthusiasts and HUPE members decided to spend their Friday evening attending a 3-hour education with their hardworking colleagues repeating their successful workshops from the 31st HUPE conference.

AGENDA 

1. 
   Workshops and lectures from 7.30PM
2. HUPE info 
3. PUB QUIZZ 
4. After meeting discussion ( other )

Our first workshop was highly popular theme and very attractive topic: Chat GPT – should we be afraid of it?presented by Evelina Miščin, our long time member and known teacher and presenter from RIT Croatia. We learnt a lot about Chat GPT benefits and problems within the educational aspect, trying out the app itself and solving some interesting tasks. By sharing results and our own experiences the workshop was more than successful resulting with amazing audience reaction. Thank you, Evelina once again!

In between two workshops Zagreb branch president informed the participants about the 31st conference held in Poreč, reported on the venue, programme, sponsors .... and informing participants about the next conference in Poreč.

The president also informed participants about the future plans for Zagreb branch meetings, this year's Zagreb branch SPA DAY, HUPE day in April and future conferences near us from our partners. The participants were invited to take part in HUPE writing competition, participate in our newsletter and HUPEzine, as well as contribute to our web page digital materials.  All members were invited to send their ELT articles and examples of good practices to our HUPE editor Ivana Kasunić via this email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to be published in one of our future editions of HUPEzine or HUPE Newsletter.

After the shot break and catching up with colleagues, the second workshop, titled It’s quiz time!, was held by Gabrijela Čorković from Trgovačka škola, Zagreb. Gabrijela informed us about various types of apps she is using while having quizzes with her students, demonstrating advantages and disadvantages for each. Our eager quiz master Gabrijela explained how and why is she using quizzes in the classroom, what motivates students and how quizzes can contribute to learning motivation.

At the end of the workshop, Gabrijela organized a pub quiz for our participants which ended successfully by giving away four conference goody bags filled with useful teaching resources and materials to our winners and to our next to the last team ( as it is a custom in Pub quiz circles 😉). 

HUPE Zagreb is thankful to the speakers and all the members who were able to attend and make the meeting a productive and enjoyable experience. Hopefully, we will see you at our future meetings in 2024.

If you are a teacher of English and would like to join HUPE Zagreb, feel free to contact me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Thank you!

HUPE Zagreb Branch President 
Mirjana Zubak Mičetić