- To raise teachers’ awareness about ELT methods and materials and enable them to keep pace with the latest advancements of ELT both nationally and internationally.
- To encourage the general professional development of ELT in Sylhet division / Bangladesh through meetings, discussions training workshops and training courses, providing local and international newsletters and magazines and by making relevant resource materials readily available.
- To encourage individual classroom teachers to develop ideas and materials and empower those teachers to share their ideas and materials with other teachers
- To encourage a positive and mutually beneficial relationship between teachers and ELT related business
- To present and demonstrate GATE SELTA’s activities locally, nationally, and internationally
- To re-enforce GATE TRUST’s training-outcome in the classroom through GATE-SELTAs; so that GATE TRUST can evaluate learners’ achievement
