The Grammarian Role and the Form used during meetings

We talked about the Toastmasters Agenda form last week and I wanted to do a quick talk about the Grammarians report form and that role in general.  The form like most of our forms is relatively self explanatory.  The Grammarian will listen for filler words and the word of the day and record who used what in the form.  Also listen for proper or improper use of  grammar.  What we have gotten into the habit of not doing and I think it has definite value is the use of the clicker. So when someone uses a filler like Um or ah they will hear a click from the clicker.  This is to alert the speaker they are using a filler word. As you may have noticed, especially when you first started in toastmasters you often don't even realize you are using filler words.  This is a mechanism to alert you that you re doing that. 

  With that being said, if you find this too distracting "Mr Um" is the little black sheep that you often see up on the lecture. If you do not wish to be clicked you simply take him down from view and the grammarian will know to not click you.  

 This form along with the Agenda and the Timers report will be filled out at the bottom accordingly and turned into the Secretary. This will be filed away as our minutes for the meeting.