About us

Legal Status

ETAG is a non-governmental (NGO) and non-profit organization (Charter registration number: 5A/9-178). Its members can be school and university teachers of English as well as people of other professions who wish to learn more about ELT in general. ETAG also welcomes all those foreign citizens who are willing to be ETAG members.

Mission statement

ETAG mission is to raise the level of English teaching through providing opportunities for effective teacher development and helping members to network and share experience with colleagues both within Georgia and outside it.

ETAG establishes and maintains close contacts with all secondary and tertiary level institutions where English is taught and supports all kinds of activities aiming to facilitate and foster ELT.

The main aims of ETAG are to:

• raise the level of English language teaching through providing opportunities for effective teacher development
• help members share experience with colleagues both: within Georgia and outside it
• provide professionally managed resources
• initiate and implement ELT development projects in accordance with education reform
• maintain contacts with government and non-governmental structures involved in ELT

ETAG achieves these aims by

• holding international and national conferences
• publishing a monthly newsletter
• maintaining professional links with governmental and non-governmental organizations, including IATEFL and TESOL
• implementing collaborative projects
• designing and conducting teacher training courses
• supporting textbook design and dissemination
  

Organizational structure

ETAG management structure is presented in the following diagram:

ETAG Board Members:

• Ms. Rusudan Tkemaladze
• Ms. Tsisana Tsiskaridze
• Ms. Rusudan Enukidze
• Ms. Maya Kiasashvili
• Ms. Manana Rusieshvili
• Ms. Lali Mdinaradze

Consultant: Barrie Watson

ETAG Board Members, 2006

  Download the ETAG charter

ETAG branches

ETAG has 9 regional branches in Tbilisi, Kutaisi, Batumi, Akhaltsikhe, Poti, telavi, Zugdidi, Rustavi, and Gori.

Setting up a branch is usually an initiative of one person from the region, who advertises ETAG activities in the region. She collects the people who want to be ETAG members and get involved in ETAG activities. For setting up an official branch the regional representative invites ETAG board representatives from the head office in Tbilisi and organises a meeting where all interested teachers are present. Heads of regional branches are elected for two-year terms and can be re-elected only once. The requirement for approval of the new branch by the ETAG board is at least ten members.

Branches are coordinated by the ETAG Board.

Contact Info

Gori office