13 May 2026
The third HUPE Osijek branch meeting in the 2025-2026 school year was held on Saturday, May 9, 2026, at the Faculty of Education in Osijek. The meeting gathered 15 HUPE members for a morning of professional development, practical workshops, and sharing teaching ideas in a pleasant and collaborative atmosphere.
The agenda included:
- Sanja Rašković: Engaging and Teaching Generation Alpha Without Relying on Technology
- Ida Globočnik: Storytelling “à la carte”
- HUPE News
At the beginning of the meeting, Sanja Rašković, an English teacher and certified NLP trainer from Global Lingua private language school in Zaprešić, held a workshop titled Engaging and Teaching Generation Alpha Without Relying on Technology. Through a range of games, practical activities and ready-to-use ideas, Sanja explored effective ways of motivating and teaching Generation Alpha students while developing their future skills, even in classrooms with limited access to technology. Participants actively took part in the activities and gained useful strategies for creating more engaging and dynamic lessons.
The second workshop, titled Storytelling “à la carte”, was delivered by Ida Globočnik from Ban Josip Jelačić Secondary School in Zaprešić. In this interactive session, participants explored storytelling as a powerful tool for teaching English through a variety of creative before-, while-, and after-reading activities designed to develop language skills, creativity, and emotional intelligence. The workshop offered many practical classroom ideas adaptable to different age groups and encouraged active participation and creative thinking.
During the HUPE News section, participants were informed about upcoming HUPE activities and events, including the call for contributions to the next issue of HUPEzine, the call for speakers for the 34th HUPE Conference which is taking place at Hotel Antunović in Zagreb from 20 to 21 November 2026, the results of the Multilingual Music Competition, the popular Languages United & HUPE bake-along activities, and information about upcoming partner associations’ conferences and teacher training opportunities in Devon with SOL.
As part of the meeting, participants also took part in the HUPE branches “poem on a string” break-time activity created by our member Anna Maria Popović. During the coffee break, members read the poem “HUPELAND” and contributed their own creative rhyme-names for the 11 HUPE branches by writing ideas on paper “T-shirts” displayed on the wall.
HUPE Osijek sincerely thanks the speakers and all members who attended the meeting and contributed to the pleasant and inspiring atmosphere through active participation and a few good laughs. We hope the workshops provided useful and practical ideas that participants will be able to apply in their classrooms.
Hopefully, we will see you at one of our future meetings next school year. Good luck with the end of the school year and enjoy your well-deserved summer holidays!
Adrijana Roždijevac
HUPE Osijek branch president
