Due to severe flooding in July, Barnett House will remain closed until early 2027.
The ATA Library is still open and providing resources to members.
Staff are working from home and continue to serve members online and by phone.
The Southern Alberta Regional Office (SARO) in Calgary is unaffected and conducts business per usual.
If you are a teacher employed by a public, separate or francophone school board in Alberta, you are required to be an active member of the ATA. Other teachers may join as associate members. Education students may join as student members.
More than 40,000 full -and part-time teachers form the core of the ATA's active membership.
Alberta’s Teaching Profession Act makes membership in the ATA automatic upon employment as a teacher in the public education system.
There are two exceptions:
If you are a substitute teacher, you become an active member after your first contributions are received during a school year. You remain an active member until the end of that school year or until you are no longer on the approved substitute roster of the school board, whichever occurs first.
As an active member, you can access all ATA services and enjoy high levels of job protection.
You can also access special rates from various ATA partners.
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| Fees (effective September 1, 2025) | |
|---|---|
| Employed full-time | $1,422 per annum |
| On leave of absence | $96 per annum |
| Employed part-time | 1.25% of earnings in each month |
| Employed as an intern | 1.25% of earnings in each month |
| Employed as a substitute | 1% of earnings in each month |
Associate membership offers valuable benefits to a broad cross-section of people associated with Alberta K–12 education who are not eligible for active membership.
Benefits
Please note not all Associate Members are eligible to attend Teachers' Convention. To check if you would be eligible, please visit Convention guest registration | Alberta Teachers' Association.
Eligibility
Fee
$213.30 per year (effective September 1, 2025)
How to apply
Download, fill out and return an associate membership application form.
Students in full-time undergraduate programs that lead to teacher certification in Alberta become student members of the ATA when they join their student local.
Student members receive services through their local and the provincial ATA. They cannot vote or hold office in the ATA, but can volunteer to assist council executive officers with certain tasks.
Benefits
Fee
To join a student local, you must become a member of your postsecondary institution’s Education Students’ Association (ESA) or Education Undergraduate Society (EUS), which will forward $1 of your membership fee to the ATA. This automatically makes you a student member of the ATA.
Teachers who retire after 20 or more years of ATA membership are awarded life membership.
Life membership celebrates their long commitment to teaching and helps them maintain contact with the profession through free access to publications such as the ATA News and the ATA Magazine.
Life members are not entitled to vote or to hold office in the ATA. If they wish to participate in these activities, they must become associate members.
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Central office staff can choose to retain ATA membership as associate or active members
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