What are roles?

To help ensure that each session is successful and efficient, participants (and sometimes guests) volunteer to fulfill certain roles for the meeting:

• Toastmaster-of-the-Day: the master of ceremonies who leads the meeting

View Toastmaster Script

• Speaker: gives a prepared speech from the Pathways Program, usually 5 to 7 minutes in length, often with one or more specific objectives

View Speaker resources

• Timer: monitors and records the time elapsed during each speech and table topic response

View Timer Script and Log

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• Grammarian: introduces and monitors usage of the “Word of the Day”; listens for both imprecise uses of the English language as well as exceptional turns of phrase

View Grammarian Script and Log

• Ah-Counter: listens for the use of filler words (ex. “um”) as well as repeated “double clutch” words

View Ah Counter Script and Log

• Table Topics Master: prompts volunteers to speak extemporaneously for 1-2 minutes on a variety of topics he or she selects

View Table Topics Master script and Log

View Table Topics Ideas

• General Evaluator: provides constructive feedback on the meeting in general

View General Evaluator Roles and Responsibilities

• Evaluator: provides constructive feedback to the speaker at the conclusion of his or her speech