T'cai prefers hands on practical classes to lectures in general, and tries to incorporate demonstrations and practice into as many of his lessons as he can. He also enjoys bringing in subject matter experts for lecture heavy topics, especially for Flights and post Flight etiquette. He's also fond of using odd analogies and metaphors and frequently includes anecdotes of questionable validity or theoretical scenarios to help get a point across.

Not the strictest disciplinarian, T'cai is likely to turn a blind eye to some more innocent transgressions or take the time to explain why something isn't acceptable rather than immediately punish for it. When the situation does call for it, he generally assigns extra exercise for small offenses, usually sending weyrlings to run laps around the bowl or to do push ups. For conflicts between werlings he's likely to assign cooperative punishments, forcing them to at least practice working together or even tolerating each other to get whatever task has been assigned to them over with. He's of the opinion that getting into mischief with a buddy is safer than trying to sneak off to do something alone, so he's not likely to separate weyrlings who get into trouble together unless it is obvious that one of the weyrlings has significant influence over the other, or things escalate.

T'cai won't allow candidates who have runny noses, sniffles, or other signs of respiratory illness onto the Sands for the Touching. If they develop symptoms after the Touching he'll begrudgingly allow them to Stand.

He places a lot of emphasis on exercise and requires that weyrlings begin daily routines starting in the second month since he believes the activity also helps the hatchlings settle into more regular sleep schedules.

Overall, Tala is pretty calm and chill. She wants to be easy to reach out to with problems for the weyrlings, and is good at listening and being nonjudgmental. Big fan of asking a lot of questions to lead people to the right answer whenever possible.

Niath hates bullies, and keeps a close eye on the young dragons to make sure they aren't ganging up on anyone in the way kids do. She is perfectly happy to let little dragons crawl all over her or otherwise participate in whatever games baby dragons might come up with.

Learning opportunities! Punishments are tailored to whatever the person is being punished [i]for[/i], so that they are more likely to learn from the experience or something.

She tries her best to keep classes informal and have it seem like a group of friends discussing a topic together. She wants to be seen as approachable, at any hour, but still tries to have a little backbone so she still garners some respect. But anything too formal makes her nervous and brings out a slight stutter.

V'lia's go-to is cleaning. Depending on the severity of the crime, she has different tasks she doles out.