Community Service Award

Description:

Non monetary certificate of recognition.

To encourage students to take their music out into the community.

Eligibility:

Any student studying music with a member of the Alberta Registered Music Teachers’ Association.

Benefits to the Student and the Community:

  • Gives students credit for taking their music into the community.
  • Encourages a practical use of the student’s musical education.
  • Takes the student out of the private music studio and home and into the community.
  • Gives the student a greater awareness of how their music can be used throughout their lives.
  • Gives students a goal to strive for regardless of their musical capabilities.
  • Provides entertainment for those who are in institutions.
  • Provides festivals with needed volunteers.

Volunteering Suggestions:

  • Playing music at senior citizen centers, care homes, hospitals, or for shut-ins.
  • Taking a senior citizen or persons with limited mobility to a concert.
  • Helping with music programs at church.
  • Helping with extracurricular music programs at school.
  • Assisting a music therapist.
  • Accompanying choirs, singers, string, winds or brass players.
  • Helping at music festivals.
  • Volunteering at concerts with such activities as helping with programs, staging, or lighting.

Students should include the time volunteering at the location but not travel time.

Awards Level:

BRONZE CERTIFICATE: 10 hours
SILVER CERTIFICATE: 35 hours (25 more than Bronze)
GOLD CERTIFICATE: 60 hours (25 more than Silver)

Teachers, please send completed forms by one of the following methods:

By using the file uploader below. (Recommended)
By email to: Marlaine Osgood osgoodmg@gmail.com
By mail to: 410 Walker Road NW, Edmonton AB T5T 2X2

Deadlines for submissions are January 31 and June 30.

Community Service Award Application

Application Form & Record Sheet

You can submit your completed form online using the file uploader below:

  1. Scan or take a photo of your form & then save it to your computer or phone/tablet.
  2. Click the “select file” button below to attach your file. Max 10MB per file.
  3. Click “upload file”
Upload Community Service Award File



 



Certificates will be issued twice a year, once by March 1 and once by August 1, and mailed to individual teachers.

Thank you to BCRMTA and Victoria Branch for providing the framework for this program!