General Evaluator
The role of the General Evaluator is to evaluate everything that takes place throughout the meeting, that is not otherwise evaluated.
Your task is to review and assess the club meeting—from the time people arrive to the end of the program, and then report your findings and suggestions for improvement.
You should highlight how members have performed in their assigned roles and their respective tasks, including a reflection on their preparation, organization, timeliness, enthusiasm, and overall carrying out the duties themselves.
General Evaluators help by providing motivating, structured, and specific feedback. You should offer specific commendations and recommendations on what and why something came across well or didn’t.
Speech Evaluartors
The General Evaluator also reviews and provides feedback on the meeting evaluators (Speech and Table Topics). You assess their introductions and evaluations themselves – not adding to what the speech evaluations have addressed to the respective speeches.
The General Evaluator’s report can also assess meeting structure and protocol, as well as how well members have fulfilled their club responsibilities. This perspective offers a big-picture view of club performance to ensure that members are learning, the meetings are efficient and effective, and the club is thriving.
Another thing the General Evaluator does is giving feedback to the meeting participants who have not already been evaluated. Here is the opportunity for the Toastmaster, RAVER, Educational, Table Topics Master, Table Topics participants, and the Evaluators to receive feedback on how well they did and to hear suggestions on how to improve.
The Timer, Ah Counter, and Grammarian are also there to help on how well individual Toastmasters are achieving their goals; keeping time, no filler words and using insightful language.
Before Meeting
Meeting Opening
Toastmaster
Grammarian / Big Ears
Table Topics Master
RAVER
Um/Ah Counter
Educational
The role of the General Evaluator is to evaluate everything that takes place throughout the meeting, that is not otherwise evaluated.
Your task is to review and assess the club meeting—from the time people arrive to the end of the program, and then report your findings and suggestions for improvement.
You should highlight how members have performed in their assigned roles and their respective tasks, including a reflection on their preparation, organization, timeliness, enthusiasm, and overall carrying out the duties themselves.
General Evaluators help by providing motivating, structured, and specific feedback. You should offer specific commendations and recommendations on what and why something came across well or didn’t.
Speech Evaluartors
The General Evaluator also reviews and provides feedback on the meeting evaluators (Speech and Table Topics). You assess their introductions and evaluations themselves – not adding to what the speech evaluations have addressed to the respective speeches.
- Was the introduction inviting and set the scene for the speaker?
- Were the speakers’ personal goals and pathway speech objectives referenced and assessed?
- Was the 'sandwich' technique employed: Did they undertake effective evaluations – offering specific commendation and recommendations?
- Did they begin on a positive note?
- Was at least one suggestion for improvement made?
- Were more than 3 suggestions made?
- Was encouragement added at the closing remarks?
The General Evaluator’s report can also assess meeting structure and protocol, as well as how well members have fulfilled their club responsibilities. This perspective offers a big-picture view of club performance to ensure that members are learning, the meetings are efficient and effective, and the club is thriving.
Another thing the General Evaluator does is giving feedback to the meeting participants who have not already been evaluated. Here is the opportunity for the Toastmaster, RAVER, Educational, Table Topics Master, Table Topics participants, and the Evaluators to receive feedback on how well they did and to hear suggestions on how to improve.
The Timer, Ah Counter, and Grammarian are also there to help on how well individual Toastmasters are achieving their goals; keeping time, no filler words and using insightful language.
Before Meeting
- Was the room and equipment set up on time?
- Were guests welcomed upon arrival?
Meeting Opening
- Did the meeting start on time?
- Was everyone properly introduced?
- Was the Toastmaster properly introduced?
Toastmaster
- Did the Toastmaster fill up all the roles prior to starting the meeting?
- Did the Toastmaster introduce and explain the meeting’s theme?
- Did the meeting keep to time?
Grammarian / Big Ears
- Was the Grammarian prepared and did they introduce their role within the allotted time?
- Did the Grammarian properly introduce the Word of the Day?
- Was the Word of the Day challenging, appropriate, and fitting for the theme of the meeting?
- Did they run an effective Big Ears quiz with a mixture of challenging recalls?
Table Topics Master
- Was the purpose and timing of Table Topics properly explained?
- Was the topic selected appropriate and did it fit the meeting theme?
- Did the table topics master call on people who did not have a meeting role first during Table Topics, with the following order (those who didn’t have a meeting role, then smaller roles, then larger roles)?
- Were guests invited to participate?
- Was control properly returned to the Toastmaster?
RAVER
- Was the RAVER entertaining and engaging to the audience?
- Did the RAVER choose an appropriate topic to present, and did they use appropriate language?
Um/Ah Counter
- Did the Um/Ah Counter address all the filler words/sounds?
- Was their feedback constructive and encouraging to guests and members when they address the filler words/sounds?
Educational
- Was the educational helpful and insightful in helping other club members to improve and be prepared for a particular role (e.g. speech evaluations, be a table topics master, or be a judge for a speech contest etc.)
- Did the educational provide sufficient and concise information with clarity, whilst keeping within their assigned time?