HUPE Split Branch Meeting Report
This school year's first regular HUPE Split Branch meeting took place last Friday, 1 December 2023. It started at 5:00 p.m. As many as 23 English teachers were hosted by their kind colleagues from OŠ Pujanki. They attended three wonderful workshops.
Agenda items:
- HUPE news – 31st Conference report
- Ivana Bokavšekand Anita Lasić: And the Oscar Goes To…!
- Ivana Pločkinić: Transversal Skills
- Ana Kodrić Ivelićand Marija Čarija Agoli: Team Building With CLIL
- Raffle and prizes by publishers
- The meeting was opened by Anita Lasić, who welcomed the participants and introduced herself as the new HUPE Split Branch president. Then, she briefed the attendees about the 31st Annual International HUPE Conference programme and outcomes as well as the positive feedback from the conference participants. She informed the attendees about the already announced short story writing competition - Storyland, upcoming online HUPE Day and teacher training in Malta/Dublin that might take place in August 2024. More information about the trip will be provided once it is fully planned and confirmed.
- The first workshop, And the Oscar Goes To…!, was delivered byIvana Bokavšek from OŠ Spinut, Split and Anita Lasić from OŠ don Mihovil Pavlinović, Podgora. In this workshop, speakers shared the methods of how to make students improve their listening and speaking skills using film and video materials. They spoke about how to assess speaking skills, how and where to find ideas and teaching material, and how to integrate movies into the classroom. They shared the ways to include the elements of gamification and enhance students’ logical thinking, at the same time improving their media literacy.
- The second workshop was presented by Ivana Pločkinićfrom III gimnazija, Split. She delivered a wonderful presentation about transversal skills. These skills are not considered as specifically related to a particular subject or area of knowledge but as skills that can be used in a wide variety of situations. Transversal skills are increasingly in high demand for learners to be successful at school. Some examples are critical and innovative thinking, interpersonal skills, intra-personal skills, global citizenship, media and information literacy.
- The third workshop was prepared and presented by the host school teachersMarija Čarija Agoli and Ana Kodrić Ivelić who gladly and successfully shared their experience with CLIL. CLIL stands for Content and Language Integrated Learning. It incorporates both the learning of content and the learning of a foreign language. The participating teachers, organized in teams, got a task to design a lesson each on a given transcurricular topic (fashion, Solar System, World War II,…).
- The last item on the agenda was organized to make attendees socialize, get to know each other better, exchange ideas as well as to initiate professional networking. Refreshments were offered alongside the raffle in which all tickets were winning ones. The prizes were obtained by our faithful publishers and other sponsors.
The meeting was carried out in an extremely relaxed and motivating atmosphere. It was very successful and ended at 8:20.
Anita Lasić
HUPE Split Branch President