Fairleigh Early Birds Toastmasters Club

Each club can have a modified meeting schedule. Here's how we do it at the Fairleigh Early Birds Toastmasters.

• We start a meeting with President's remarks

• President calls upon the Invocator
   - An Invocator is called to deliver an inspirational message

• President calls upon the Toastmaster of the meeting
   - The Toastmaster is the main role player in a meeting
   - The Toastmaster introduces himself/herself and calls the following Role Players, which explain their role and how they're going to do it

   - Wordmaster: gives us a word of the day that we use throughout the meeting

   - Grammarian: takes note of any grammatical erorrs, ahs and uhms

   - General Evaluator: evaluates the meeting as a whole and tells us what we did well and what we can improve upon

   - Timer: keeps a record of time -- each section has its time allocated

• Table Topics Master now asks impromptu questions based on a meeting Theme
   - this is a great part of the meeting: each member that's not speaking gets to answer an impromptu question
   - each question is limited to 1-2 minutes and the member is picked after the question is asked

• We vote for best table topic anwer

• We take a 5 minute break

• We begin prepared-speeches portion of the meeting
   - We have three prepared speeches, each speech is usually five to seven minutes

• We begin general-evalution portion of the meeting
  - Each speech is evaluated by an assigned evaluator

• General Evaluator calls upon individual role players to give their reports and gives his/her meeting evaluation

• President makes closing remarks

• Jokemaster gives us a joke to end the meeting

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As you can see, we have a lot of different roles. Each role is filled by our current members! A Toastmaster wears many hats, and during your membership you will get to do each of the roles! Great experience.

Stanley K