Why are so many teachers required?

[Shiba]

I don't know how to add a screenshot to explain. But on my second year requirement it says I must have 3 Robotic teachers, I have 2 and I feel I only need one. Why so many?

[Vern]

1 teacher per class per year . you have the new incoming year 1 class the 2nd year class . and the lecture hall you are going to need even more once you unlock the private tutor office .

[Theomax]

I think you can train one teacher in 3 different courses to teach, so you can be economical if you initially take on lots of teachers and then over time train them in multiple courses

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by Theomax:

I think you can train one teacher in 3 different courses to teach, so you can be economical if you initially take on lots of teachers and then over time train them in multiple courses

That's an absolutely terrible idea, they can only teach 1 class at a time and the classes are simultaneous. They can't be in two places at once so you will never get any value out of cross training like this.

By the time you're far enough in that you can train people, you should be making them experts in their field.

In fact you want extra of any particular teacher type so that they can also do tuition and research

Originally posted by Shiba:

I don't know how to add a screenshot to explain. But on my second year requirement it says I must have 3 Robotic teachers, I have 2 and I feel I only need one. Why so many?

Overlapping classes, look at the schedule it will show you exactly what you're missing and why. Each class is 8 students. If you're accepting numbers that are not multiples of 8, you're creating duplicate needs.

1 class of 8 students needs 1 lecture hall. If you intake 9, you now need two teachers and so on.

Adjust your intake and look at the class schedule to figure it out.

[Shiba]

Oh yes, thanks all, it's because I've altered my intake, 21 per course.

[Tripas]

Originally posted by Kunovega:

Originally posted by Theomax:

I think you can train one teacher in 3 different courses to teach, so you can be economical if you initially take on lots of teachers and then over time train them in multiple courses

That's an absolutely terrible idea, they can only teach 1 class at a time and the classes are simultaneous. They can't be in two places at once so you will never get any value out of cross training like this.

That, and even if the classes that teacher is trained in aren't simultaneous they still need to rest. Otherwise they'd be constantly bouncing from class to class, never getting any rest, which would affect their ability to teach, leading to lower grades.

[r.wardy]

Originally posted by Kunovega:

... you will never get any value out of cross training like this.

By the time you're far enough in that you can train people, you should be making them experts in their field.

In fact you want extra of any particular teacher type so that they can also do tuition and research

Not entirely true. A teacher with two class skills and tuition can lecture two different types of students in a single tuition room. You don't want them to actually teach or do since, though.
In my experience, only the rank of the tuition skill matters for such a specialized teacher.

They real teachers, I do not want to do tuition or research. They get inspiring speech and comical timing, or what's it called, and blast it in the face of 8 students at once.

Edit: The researchers also have two different types of classes at only skill level one because only the rank of their research skill matters. The type of class only matters for what fields they can research.

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by r.wardy:

Originally posted by Kunovega:

... you will never get any value out of cross training like this.

By the time you're far enough in that you can train people, you should be making them experts in their field.

In fact you want extra of any particular teacher type so that they can also do tuition and research

Not entirely true. A teacher with two class skills and tuition can lecture two different types of students in a single tuition room. You don't want them to actually teach or do since, though.
In my experience, only the rank of the tuition skill matters for such a specialized teacher.

They real teachers, I do not want to do tuition or research. They get inspiring speech and comical timing, or what's it called, and blast it in the face of 8 students at once.

Edit: The researchers also have two different types of classes at only skill level one because only the rank of their research skill matters. The type of class only matters for what fields they can research.

And those classes will be scheduled overlapping, making the second skill useless

It's better to have them either be an inspirational speaker, or tutor or a researcher and use their spare time for something else, in any efficient set up they won't have time to teach a second class type that's going to have its lectures simultaneously.

If your schedule is so spread out that one teacher could cover two classes, you're at half capacity and not making anywhere near the money you could be that year.

[r.wardy]

Originally posted by Kunovega:

Originally posted by r.wardy:

Not entirely true. A teacher with two class skills and tuition can lecture two different types of students in a single tuition room. You don't want them to actually teach or do since, though.
In my experience, only the rank of the tuition skill matters for such a specialized teacher.

They real teachers, I do not want to do tuition or research. They get inspiring speech and comical timing, or what's it called, and blast it in the face of 8 students at once.

Edit: The researchers also have two different types of classes at only skill level one because only the rank of their research skill matters. The type of class only matters for what fields they can research.

And those classes will be scheduled overlapping, making the second skill useless

It's better to have them either be an inspirational speaker, or tutor or a researcher and use their spare time for something else, in any efficient set up they won't have time to teach a second class type that's going to have its lectures simultaneously.

If your schedule is so spread out that one teacher could cover two classes, you're at half capacity and not making anywhere near the money you could be that year.

I think you misunderstood me. Yes, you want to have specialized teachers for classes, we are on the same page here. These will have one class skill plus the inspirational speaker plus the comical timing skill, both can randomly trigger during a class. They can hold up to 6 classes a year if you only allow them to teach classes by unchecking the "Private tuition" and "Research" boxes in the job assignment register.
I know this because I got the teacher of the year award multiple times, and it shows you in detail what they did to earn this. But yeah, you need to do a little math to determine when it makes sense to hire a specialized teacher for tuition. The point is, once they are booked out with classes, they only have the time in between to do other stuff like tutoring students, but this is also the time when they tend to their needs/take breaks, so they might not be able to tutor much/at all.

Of course, specializing a teacher for tuition duty only makes sense once you do have enough students/classes.
If you do not have different courses, give them comical timing instead of another class skill. In my observations, the inspirational speaker skill does not trigger in tuition rooms. These teachers can also earn the teacher of the year award, I have seen one with 9 tuitions and one given over 1,000 xp to students.

About the science specialist, well an argument can be made you will not make good use out of those. Few maps start you with two different courses at once, and after you researched all the upgrades, you might not get enough value out of them by repeating the cash or kudosh topics. You can however fire them safely and not mess up your timetable at any point during a running year.

Again, I think we both agree on having specialized teachers, we just have different opinions on what sort.
All I am saying is, there is value in having very few teachers with two different class skills under the right circumstances.