{"id":1248,"date":"2019-09-09T23:49:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T03:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/?page_id=1248"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T14:43:06","slug":"gcmta-music-educationpedagogy-medped-major-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/student-activities\/gcmta-music-educationpedagogy-medped-major-scholarships","title":{"rendered":"MED\/PED Major Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>GCMTA Music Education\/Pedagogy (MED\/PED) Major Scholarships<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since GCMTA defines its purposes as \u201ct<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he advancement of music education\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and \u201ct<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o facilitate the education of music teachers,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d we have established a scholarship in the amount of $500.00. Eligible applicants will be high school seniors who will pursue a Bachelor of Music Education or Pedagogy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration Deadline:\u00a0<\/strong>May 1. Online (preferred) or delivered.<br \/><strong>Event chair:\u00a0<\/strong>Kathy Dawal, 1735 Fort Daniels Trl, Dacula, GA 30019, <a href=\"mailto:kdawal81@gmail.com\">kdawal81@gmail.com<\/a>, 404-583-9769<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gcmta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/MEDPED-scholarship-application.docx\">Print application for MED\/PED MAJOR SCHOLARSHIP<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MED\/PED MAJOR SCHOLARSHIP\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gcmta.org\/machform\/view.php?id=18016\">Online application for MED\/PED MAJOR SCHOLARSHIP<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>APPLICANT QUALIFICATIONS:<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Applicant must be a high school senior who has been accepted as a music major in education or pedagogy and is entering that particular program in the upcoming year. The higher education institution must have the ability to graduate students with a Bachelor\u2019s degree in music education or pedagogy. Verification of acceptance to the accredited music education school must be submitted with the application.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Applicant must be the student and\/or child of a GCMTA teacher in good standing for the current year. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Applicant must have participated in at least one GCMTA adjudicated performance event in the previous twelve months (i.e. Auditions, Music Day, Federated Festival), and must submit a copy of the adjudicator\u2019s comment sheet to the MED\/PED Scholarship Committee.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Applicant must submit the URL of an online video with applicant performing any repertoire on his\/her chosen instrument not to exceed 10 minutes.\u00a0 Memorization is not required.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Applicant must complete and submit the MED\/PED Scholarship application to the Chair by the deadline of May 1.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Applicant must submit an essay of 350 words or fewer describing why music education or pedagogy is an important career path to pursue.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Applicant must provide the name and email address of his\/her music teacher who is willing to write a recommendation for the applicant.\u00a0 He\/she will be contacted to submit a recommendation for the applicant.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GCMTA Music Education\/Pedagogy (MED\/PED) Major Scholarships Since GCMTA defines its purposes as \u201cthe advancement of music education\u201d and \u201cto facilitate the education of music teachers,\u201d we have established a scholarship in the amount of $500.00. Eligible applicants will be high school seniors who will pursue a Bachelor of Music Education or Pedagogy. Registration Deadline:\u00a0May 1. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/student-activities\/gcmta-music-educationpedagogy-medped-major-scholarships\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MED\/PED Major Scholarships<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1248","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"https:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1248\/revisions\/2428"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}