According to Section 18 of the Act of Incorporation, the objects of the NBTA are:
(a) to advance and promote the cause of education in the Province of New Brunswick;
(b) to raise the status of the teaching profession;
(c) to impress the public with the supreme importance of providing and maintaining quality educational services;
(d) to advise, assist, protect and discipline members in the discharge of their professional duties and relationships;
(e) to publish or assist in the publication of educational periodicals;
(f) to provide for, establish, subsidize and regulate branches of the Association throughout the Province;
(g) to co-operate with the Federation in the promotion of the interests of the teaching profession in the fields of salary and working conditions, certification and pension;
(h) to establish, subsidize and regulate councils; and
(i) to co-operate with the Department of Education and co-operate or affiliate with public organizations, societies, institutions and others in furtherance of the purposes set forth above.