AMI membership is open to all individuals. Joining directly, we offer 1-year or Life memberships. Students on AMI Diploma courses are required to hold membership for the duration of their course, after which they are invited to join directly to continue their membership. Some AMI Affiliated Societies offer collective memberships.
What are the membership benefits?
AMI membership brings you into a worldwide community dedicated to the rights of the child and to supporting human development. Your membership supports AMI in this shared goal, as well as giving you access to:
Attending and voting rights at AMI's Annual General Meeting (AGM)
Digital newsletter featuring the latest on AMI's work and news from across the globe
Discounted offers and access at congresses, refreshers and other events
Educational publications including AMI Journals and Treasure Articles
Later in 2025 the AMI Digital website will be relaunched as an exclusive member service, with access to downloadable Montessori digital materials.
When and how will I receive my membership?
Once you have paid for your membership, you will receive an email with your receipt.
Please then allow 5–10 business days for memberships to be processed.
When processed, you will receive a welcome email confirming your membership, and links to the most recent newsletters and periodicals. Membership newsletters are sent every second month.
Please check your junk/spam folder if you do not receive your receipt or welcome email.
Should you have any membership queries, please feel free to Contact Us.
What are credits?
Later in 2025, AMI members will be able to access the relaunched AMI Digital website where they will have access to download digital Montessori materials using allocated credits. This service is not yet available.
Digital materials will have assigned credit values, and members can download materials using their credit allocation. A running total of credits will be displayed on the website. More details will be available when this service is launched.
Where can I find my member number?
Memberships purchased using this website will be assigned a new member number which, when you are logged in, can be viewed from your Dashboard. To access your Dashboard, click the down arrow on the user icon from the top right menu bar, and select My Account. Click the Orders button. Your membership purchase order will be listed showing your member number.
Memberships purchased prior (not using this website) will have earlier member numbers that were emailed with your original member welcome email. These numbers will be superseded when renewing with this website and will no longer be required.
Can my school become a member?
AMI Membership is open to individuals only. It bestows not only access to benefits and services for individuals, but voting rights at the AGM.
To support schools, AMI is working on a Global School Accreditation (GSA) programme, currently in the pilot phase. In future years, schools and centres can join this programme to access benefits relating to their service.
Access
I have existing membership - can I log in to this site?
Existing AMI memberships (not purchased using this website) did not provide login access to any websites. This new membership website is currently only in Phase 1, where new or renewing users use it to pay for their membership. At this stage it does not do any other function so there is no login for existing members. Later, all members will be able to access it for information on their membership, including a credit system to download Montessori materials (from the relaunched AMI Digital website). This is anticipated late in 2025.
Support
Creating an account
Creating an account on this AMI website lets you make purchases, including AMI membership. We use a secure Single Sign-On (SSO) system to manage user accounts. During registration, you’ll be asked to set a password that must include:
minimum of 8 characters
minimum of one uppercase letter
minimum of one lowercase letter
minimum of one special character
Only verified email addresses are allowed to be used. After the registration, you will receive an email with a verify-email link which is valid for 5 minutes. Please click this link to validate your email to finalise your account setup.
Note that if you validate your email using a different device or browser than where the registration occurred, any sessions information (such as items added to your Cart) will be lost and you will be returned to the my.montessori-ami.org homepage. To preserve these, verify your email using the same device and browser.
Have any additional questions?
Please contact the AMI Office if you have any additional questions.