Adult R.O.C citizens who work or reside in organizational areas of educational associations, work as school or preschool teachers, have ever worked as school teachers for more than three years, work as administrative personnel of educational authorities at any level, or work as professionals of a social education institute or researchers of an academic research institution, may join the educational associations located in the townships, cities, or districts where they work or reside and become individual members.
Schools, social education institutes and academic research institutions of all levels can join the educational associations located in the townships, cities, or districts in which they are located and become sponsoring members. Sponsoring members have no rights to select or be selected.

Any of the following persons cannot become members of educational associations:
1. Persons who commit crimes of civil strife and foreign aggression and whose crimes have been testified.
2. Persons who commit crimes other than those mentioned in Subparagraph 1 and are in the execution of punishment.
3. Persons who have been deprived of civil rights.
4. Persons who have been placed under the declaration of guardian and such declaration has not yet been withdrawn.
5. Persons who are in the declaration of bankruptcy.

The lower educational associations are the group members of the relevant upper educational associations.
The group representatives of lower educational associations to attend the meetings of upper educational associations are elected or appointed in meetings of councils of group members two months before the reelection of directors and supervisors of upper educational associations, the number of member representatives is decided by the upper educational associations in proportion to the number of representatives of each group member, which is stipulated in the bylaw.

Members (member representatives) have the rights of vote, election, being elected and recall, one vote for each.

When members or member representatives cannot attend the general meetings in person, they should entrust other members or member representatives to deputize their votes, each member or member representative can only deputize one member or member representative and the entrusted members or member representatives should not exceed half of the number of those attending the meetings.

The rule of membership transfer of educational associations of township (city district) is made by central competent authorities.