Introduction
The educational goals of Toastmasters are two fold: Better speaking and Better Leadership skills. There are excellent resources that describe both programs located on the District 4 website (d4tm.org)

For New and Potential members, you will want to read about the basic speech manual.

Evaluations
As part of learning to be better speakers, we learn to give and receive constructive feedback. Learning to use this feedback process helps us learn to be better communicators and leaders.

As part of our effort to grow our skills as constructive evaluators, the Silver Tongued Cats have made evaluation forms available to our evaluators at all meetings. This is a voluntary program that makes it easier for us to solicit feedback regarding our evaluations and allows us to complete the feedback loop for the entire speech process. If you have any questions about these forms see the VP of Education (Louis Stone-Collonge until July 2005).

There are also several online articles that are excellent resources for our evaluators:

Evaluate to Motivate
(d4tm.org resource)

A Step-by-Step Approach to Evaluation
(online resource from New Zealand club)

How to Provide Better Evaluations
(online resource from TM District 26)

When You Are An Evaluator
(online resource from TM District 18)

Table Topics
Table Topics are the perfect opportunity for us to practice our spontaneous skill. Talking spontaneously is a very different skill than presenting a prepared talk. Spontaneous speaking requires practice in the same way that most sports require working out. Table topics is the chance to stretch those muscles and build strength in your speaking.

Table Topics (PDF)
(online resource from TM District 70)