Getting Creative With Pathways
One of the complaints I hear about the Toastmasters educational program, Pathways, is that there are projects and skills "missing" from the curriculum. Before Pathways, Toastmasters provided a total of 85 different "projects" members could do tied to communication. In Pathways, there are around 40 projects, so those who say we "lost" something may at the surface seem to be correct. However, just comparing the numbers doesn't tell the whole story. Though there are fewer "projects" available in Pathways, each project comes with more information and resources than the pre-Pathways projects. The pre-Pathways projects were grouped into "manuals", most with five speeches per manual. Some of those five-speech manuals have been combined into a single speaking project in Pathways. For example, Pathways has a "Connect with Storytelling" project that covers many aspects of Storytelling. The member completes this "project...