The fourth HUPE Split Branch meeting was held at Osnovna škola don Lovre Katića in Solin on March 16th, 2018.

The agenda included a 3-hour workshop titled Understanding approaches to inclusive learning.

The workshop was organised in cooperation with the British Council and run by Stephen Hindlaugh. Mr. Hindlaugh has been teaching for almost 30 years. His experience includes working in the learning support department of a secondary school in the UK. He has also been a tutor for the British Council’s online Special Educational Needs course and has been delivering face-to-face SEN workshops in Croatia.

SEN –related and cognitive learning needs were the focus of the workshop. The teachers explored their own attitudes to inclusion and how to find out more about their learners so that they can decide how to help them in the classroom. They were introduced to ten approaches to inclusion which represent a framework for good practice in teaching and learning. 

This was an active and interactive workshop in which the participants got a chance to reflect on their own teaching and how to move towards a learning –centred classroom.

After the workshop all participants entered a prize draw to win an additional SEN online module.

Thank you all for coming and hope to see you at our next meeting in May!

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Vanja Fazinić
HUPE Split

The third HUPE Rijeka Branch meeting was held at Gradska knjižnica Rijeka, ogranak Trsat – American Corner in Rijeka on March 15th, 2018. Seventeen members attended the meeting.

The agenda:

1 Stephen Hindlaugh (British Council): Engaging with special educational needs: Gifted and talented

We talked about the different ways we think that children are gifted and talented. The participants were introduced to some classroom activities and strategies, which help to engage gifted and talented children, make them feel valued and give them the appropriate academic challenge.

Thank you all for coming and hope to see you at our next meeting in May!

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Nataša Žarkov
HUPE Rijeka

HUPE - Karlovac Branch third meeting in the school year 2017/2018 was held on 6th February 2018 in  Industry and Trade Vocational School, Domobranska 2, Karlovac.

Damira Mršić, OUP consultant Croatia, Zagreb ran two workshops. The first one, Teach And Learn Anywhere And Anytime – Do Better With e-Books was an interactive workshop which emphasized the advantages of working with e-books both in elementary and secondary schools. The aim of the workshop was to encourage teachers develop better digital competences in order to be ready for new challenges in education. The presenter facilitated teachers exploring the abilities to teach in educational applications. Teachers tried a few practical activities on tablets and computers.

In the second part of the meeting, the presenter gave some insight of how to tackle the topic of Civil Education using digital material as well as how to motivate students in learning English language using  a media they like a lot. The interactive workshop Have Fun with Civic Education (GOO) Through e-Readers And Apps presented some good practical examples of using e-readers in class  and has shown how to have fun developing the topic of GOO through interesting educational applications.

The feedback has shown that the eighteen attendees have found the  workshops both interesting and helpful as well as they enjoyed the activities a lot.  

Dubravka Lapčić
HUPE Branch Karlovac President

 

The second HUPE Rijeka Branch meeting was held at Gradska knjižnica Rijeka, ogranak Trsat – American Corner in Rijeka on January 27th, 2018. Forty-six members attended the meeting.

In the first part of the meeting, the Rijeka Branch president welcomed the participants and introduced the speakers.

The agenda included three workshops:

1. Damira Mršić (OUP): Special Educational Needs – Classroom: Management & Practical Teaching Strategies
2. Dunja Frković:Teaching human anatomy from kindergarten to medical high
3. Maja Jakus: CELTA and teaching English abroad

The first workshop was held by Damira Mršić, the representative of our long–term associate Oxford University Press. She talked about managing classes with SEN students. The participants discovered more about specific difficulties SEN students might have (dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD, autism). They also got the chance to see the world from SEN students' perspective and they were given practical advice and activities they can use while teaching SEN students in their everyday classes.

Dunja Frković, the teacher in Medical High School in Rijeka, talked about various ways of teaching human anatomy on different levels of learning. The ultimate objective to learn numerous body parts can be achieved through different areas and various both traditional and advanced methods and activities. In this workshop, Dunja presented our body as an easily accessible source of ideas. She offered abundance of inventive materials to facilitate learning process.

If you have always dreamed of going abroad and teaching English, you should learn everything there is to know about CELTA. Maja Jakus, the teacher in Primary School Centar in Rijeka, told us where and how you can get it, how it helped her in the past and how it has improved her teaching.

Thank you all for coming and hope to see you at our next meeting in March!

If you wish to join HUPE Rijeka, contact me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Nataša Žarkov
HUPE Rijeka