Friday, December 2, 2016

Toast Master's workshop

26th Nov 2016

The Toast Master's 3rd workshop for this year went well! This is the second year that Toast Masters have had this programme in our school. The progress we see in the students are heart warming...

Mr Deepsaran, the chief coordinator of this programme from Toast Masters says:

We have started the 2nd  session of Youth Leadership Program(YLP) to the students of Gurukulam school, Kovalam.

There are 20 students from 8th  class and 15 students from 10th  class and 4 teaching staff from the school, who are the part of this program. 

This is a 8 session program. We started on 12th November 2016 and completed 3 sessions in November.
Due to the many holidays and exams in the month of December, we did not have sessions in December.
We have planned next 5 sessions in January and February.

This program is fully sponsored from Servion CSR budget.

I had extended support and encouragement from Nitin, thank you very much sir.

The details of first 3 sessions were

Session 1: Ice breaker
·         We introduce what is toastmasters to students.
·         It also includes on what is the importance of communication, making every student speak about themselves for 2 minutes(to compare their confidence and communication after the end of the session).

Toastmaster who help us: Jayan Narayanan
·         He is in toastmaster for about 13+ years.
·         He has achieved the highest award in toastmaster – Distinguished Toastmaster(DTM).
·         He is the founder and Managing partner @ “TOSS the COIN” marketing company.


Session 2 : Organize your speech
·         It is based on how we need to organize your speech, how we need to start and end a speech.
·         10 students will prepare a speech and present before everyone for 5 minutes.
·          Based on their speech, a friendly evaluation will be given to the students.

Toastmaster who help us: Manikandan Balasubramaniyam
·         He has been in toastmaster for about 4+ years.
·         He serves as the Area Director and takes care of 5 different clubs across different organizations.
·         He currently works for TCS and is Six Sigma Master Black Belt certified

Session 3: Get to the point
·         It is based on different styles we can follow to  deliver the right information we are planning to say.
·         10 students will prepare a speech and present before everyone for 5 minutes. Also, others will be taking different roles in toastmasters.
·          Based on their speech, a friendly evaluation will be given to the students.

Toastmaster who help us: Sastharam Ravindran
·         He has been in toastmaster for about 10+ years.
·         He has achieved the highest award in toastmaster – Distinguished Toastmaster(DTM).
·         He had served as the leader for all the Toastmaster clubs  in Tamilnadu and Srilanka for 2015 - 2016
·         He is the Director of Marketing and Operations  @ Sarash Worldwide Exports Pvt. Ltd.

Next sessions will be based on how to improve your impromptu skills, body language, gestures, how to be an MC for an event, basics of presentation, etc.

Will keep you updated on the future sessions.

Thanks and Regards,
Deepsaran S 

Report by Mr Abdul, teacher and coordinator:


In todays toast masters session, the following were presented:
how to deliver a speech in front of others in public.
How to choose a topic for a good speech... for example the topic we like, we know and the audience will know.
What are the differences between good communication and effective communication. (The presentation was done using a video presentation)
How to use correct tenses during a speech.

Two groups of 4 students each presented a  speech with their own topics.
They then evaluated the students speech, and gave their ideas to improve the speech.






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