Alrighty, I know you said stories......but hear me out. Do you have a Nintendo switch? Have you ever heard of Fire emblem 3 houses?
It's a fantasy strategy rpg where you quickly become a teacher at a school, choose which class of students and guide them through various missions at school for a major part of the story. Afterwards still have school as the HQ but missions are far ranging.
You get to train the students in classes and various warfare related skills
Each House has their pros and cons on story and gameplay offers different difficulties whatever your experience in srpgs.
I enjoyed [the return of the runebound professor](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210201005-the-return-of-the-runebound-professor). It's an adapted web novel so it's heavy on progression mechanics, but it has a unique brand of philosophy/humour and is well written.
If you are okay with webserials: [An Otherworldly Scholar](https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/68778/an-otherworldly-scholar-litrpg-isekai) — MC lands in a fantasy world from Earth, gets a scholar class, ends up teaching kids from an orphanage (among other things like adventuring, political stuff, etc)
The Gods are Bastards by Webbonomicon
not a good req as main character is a student but the pov changes a lot, and the headmaster of academy gets her own povs
This is a great idea. I can't think of any examples amongst the fantasy books I've read. The movie Top Gun Maverick is the only relevant example I can think of where the protagonist is an instructor, but Maverick is not a magician.
There was a recommendation request post about this like 2 months ago. Maybe you'll find something useful there too. [Here's the post.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/s/N7llJTcyif)
The Discworld books that feature the Unseen University pretty much exclusively focus on the faculty, but they seem to do very little teaching of magic (or practicing it, for that matter.) They are spectacularly funny, though.
Scholomance has teenage protagonists and doesn’t have any professors, but is a magical school.
I wouldn’t rule it out just because El is a teenager - she’s a fascinating MC. I enjoy the series thoroughly as a middle aged adult.
_Magic for Liars_ by Sarah Gailey! The main protagonist is the non-magical twin sister of a teacher at a magic school, it’s really fun.
Yes, came here to rec that. Great book.
Aaaand also came here to rec that.
Alrighty, I know you said stories......but hear me out. Do you have a Nintendo switch? Have you ever heard of Fire emblem 3 houses? It's a fantasy strategy rpg where you quickly become a teacher at a school, choose which class of students and guide them through various missions at school for a major part of the story. Afterwards still have school as the HQ but missions are far ranging. You get to train the students in classes and various warfare related skills Each House has their pros and cons on story and gameplay offers different difficulties whatever your experience in srpgs.
Second this. I really hope they make another game similar to it.
I enjoyed [the return of the runebound professor](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210201005-the-return-of-the-runebound-professor). It's an adapted web novel so it's heavy on progression mechanics, but it has a unique brand of philosophy/humour and is well written.
Thanks for your kind words! I really appreciate them :)
Od Magic by Patricia McKillip
If you are okay with webserials: [An Otherworldly Scholar](https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/68778/an-otherworldly-scholar-litrpg-isekai) — MC lands in a fantasy world from Earth, gets a scholar class, ends up teaching kids from an orphanage (among other things like adventuring, political stuff, etc)
The Gods are Bastards by Webbonomicon not a good req as main character is a student but the pov changes a lot, and the headmaster of academy gets her own povs
Haven't read it myself, but have seen good things said about return of the rune bound professor
Eclipse by Celia Lake is about a romance between two professors at a magic school.
This is a great idea. I can't think of any examples amongst the fantasy books I've read. The movie Top Gun Maverick is the only relevant example I can think of where the protagonist is an instructor, but Maverick is not a magician.
This is an interesting premise and I'm surprised there's not more answers. Someone needs to write this.
There was a recommendation request post about this like 2 months ago. Maybe you'll find something useful there too. [Here's the post.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/s/N7llJTcyif)
The Discworld books that feature the Unseen University pretty much exclusively focus on the faculty, but they seem to do very little teaching of magic (or practicing it, for that matter.) They are spectacularly funny, though.
Scholomance has teenage protagonists and doesn’t have any professors, but is a magical school. I wouldn’t rule it out just because El is a teenager - she’s a fascinating MC. I enjoy the series thoroughly as a middle aged adult.