RULES OF INTERNATIONAL TEACHER ASSOCIATION.

§ 1: The name of the organisation is INTERNATIONAL TEACHER ASSOCIATION and is a union and network of national “International Teacher-organisations”.

§ 2: INTERNATIONAL TEACHER ASSOCIATION is an international pedagogical organisation which purpose is to promote human rights, democracy and peace.

§ 3: The goals of the organisation has to be reached by a common national and international dialogue, by pedagogical meetings, conferences, exchange of teachers, students and pedagogical materials and projects, support-projects etc. together with an international quarterly magazine ”INTERNATIONAL TEACHER POST”.

§ 4: The general meeting is the highest authority of the organisation. Ordinary general meeting has to be held every year. Place and time must be announced by IT-Post at least 3 month before the meeting. Resolutions can only be made on matters mentioned in the agenda. If it is necessary by voting.

§ 5. The agenda of the ordinary general meeting has to include

1. Election of a chairman.

2. Report by the president. Approval by the meeting.

3. The written and checked account and budget is presented by the cashier.

Approval by the meeting.

4 Lay down the subscription for the coming year.

5. Received proposals

6. Electing the international committee.

Each country can be represented in the international committee by one national elected member. Members are elected for 2 years. During the first period half of the members are only elected for 1 year.

2 substitutes are elected every year.

The committee makes its own constitution. (President, vice-president, cashier, secretary, fields of responsibility: web-site, IT-Post, fund-raiser etc)

The committee can decide to establish an executive committee.

The committee works out the annual working plan.

The daily work is done by the president and committee members.

The international committee can establish special working groups by all members.

7. Election of 2 auditors and 1 substitute.

8. Any other business

§ 7: An extraordinary general meeting has to be hold if at least half of the committee members insist in written form to the president. Time and place for the extraordinary general meeting has to be published in the coming IT-Post.

§ 8: Dissolution can be done by a simple majority by an extraordinary general meeting.

If the organisation has any fortune this has to be given another organisation with a similar goal after all obligations has been paid.

§ 9.: This law can be changed when a proposal according to change(s) has been added to the agenda of an ordinary general meeting or an extraordinary general.

 

This law was adopted by the ITA-meeting in Samara July 2006.

 

 

Signed by President Natalia Parada and the committee Samara, Russia 2006.