As a Toastmaster, you’ll wear many hats by taking on a variety of roles as you’re ready for them. Roles are rotated among the members on a weekly basis. Most of our meetings follow this outline:

President calls the meeting to order and welcomes guests.

Early Bird opens the meeting with a quote of the day and the Pledge
   of Allegiance. Early bird also counts votes for best Speaker, best
   Evaluator and best Table Topics.

President leads group in introductions and then introduces
   the Toastmaster.

Toastmaster delivers remarks about the theme of the meeting
   and introduces each participant.

Grammarian explains his or her role and provides “word of the day.”

Timer explains how the “time machine” works in timing table topics,
   speeches and evaluations.

Table Topics Master gives topics for the one-minute impromptu
   speaking session.

Speakers (usually three) deliver prepared speeches.

General Evaluator introduces the speech evaluators.

Evaluators (one for each speaker) provide supportive feedback
   to the speakers, as well as suggestions for making the speeches
   even better.

Grammarian reports on all speakers’ use of the word of the day
   and comments on good and poor grammar and word usage.

General Evaluator provides constructive feedback about the meeting
   as a whole.

Toastmaster awards ribbons for best Speaker, Evaluator and
   Table Topics participant, makes closing remarks and then returns
   control to the President.

President asks guests for comments, makes announcements
   and adjourns meeting.