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Which Roger Microphone is Best Suited for My Classroom?

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I am a teacher(with hearing loss)and I am planning to purchase a Roger microphone for myself to be used in my classroom. I currently have three options available: Roger On 3, Roger Select, and Roger table mic 2.

My classroom typically has 35–40 students, and I usually teach while facing the class. I would like to know:

  1. Which of these three microphones would be best suited for my classroom setting and teaching style?
  2. Since I am facing the class while teaching, which microphone would provide the best voice clarity and consistent sound pickup?
  3. Where should the microphone be positioned or placed during teaching for the best results—for example, worn around the neck, clipped to clothing, or placed on a desk?
  4. Are there any specific advantages of one model over the others for a large classroom with 35–40 students?

Please recommend the most suitable option for my specific classroom requirements and explain why.

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Who is the microphone for? I.e. who is the person who will be listening to the microphone output? Yourself? All of the students? Specific students with ear-level receivers?

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Thanks for adding your . No single microphone solution will provide you with good audibility of all of the students in your classroom. None of the options listed will be a good solution as to my knowledge they cannot be the master device in a multitalker (multi microphone) network.

I recommend that you look at getting a Roger Touchscreen1 mic plus at least a couple of Roger pass-around microphones1 that connect to it. The pass around microphones can move between students as each one asks/answers questions.

The Roger touchscreen can be placed on a desk for smaller group conversations with distant students using the pass-around microphones.

If you have any hard of hearing students in your classroom you would wear the Roger Touchscreen mic around your neck, but otherwise it could be at the front of the classroom acting as an audio gateway for the pass around microphones. You can hold either of these in your hand to use in pointing mode which can pick up voices up to 2m away well, but not as well beyond that which is why additional microphones are required.

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Hi!

I am a teacher with many (25) years of experience teaching in elementary school. I am also hard of hearing and have been using hearing aids for most of my career.

In my experience the Roger devices are a tremendous help in hearing individual students or small groups. They are not helpful in classrooms with 30-40 pupils, and I would go so far as to say that in that setting the Roger microphones are worse than just using the hearing aids. The classroom is a dynamic arena, where you shift from listening to individuals and groups, close and far away from you within seconds. The main benefit of the Roger microphone is that it can be closer to the speaker than your hearing aids, but what if it suddenly is the other way around and someone is talking in front of you but the Roger microphone is also picking up some voices? Do you get out your phone so that you can mute the micropone so that you can hear the one in front of you? In my experience that is a very stressful situation.

I have Phonak P90 hearing aids, Roger On microphone for hearing individuals in crowds and in meetings where no one talks over each other. It works well.

But in the classroom, there is only one solution that works well in my experience, and that is pass around microphones, a speaker and your hearing aids. I am lucky enough to have 15 microphones and a battery driven speaker that I bring along to class, and it is a tremendous help both for me and the class. We all benefit from hearing each other loud and clear.

I hope this was helpful and wish you the best of luck!

Thanks for your contribution. The page I linked about also includes information about Roger dynamic soundfield systems. The cool thing about these systems is it can send the Roger signal directly to your hearing aids and the speakers at the same time and the speaker system volume will adapt to the level of background noise in the room so that your speech and the students' speech over the pass around mics will always be louder than the background noise level.

You really need someone from Phonak to help guide you on the equipment needed and actually install and test the equipment in the space you will be using it.

What Hearing_Potential is saying is probably true for many teachers with hearing difficulties, and worth a try.

I have tried to connect my Roger On to the speaker so that the sound is streaming to my ears. It is ideal for hearing speakers that talk to you, but you are missing out on the speakers that don’t talk to you directly. As a teacher we need to “fill the room” and take in the atmosphere of the classroom. And I think that streaming speech to your haring aids cuts you off. Any conference room speaker with microphones would be my preferred solution to your very real problem.

This thread is another reminder of how good a company and how great a contribution Phonak continues to make with their educational systems division.

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We have a new option. It is the Roger On Sphere. You can add up to 10 of them in a multitalker network and they run the sphere . Available in mid-November 2026. 10 microphones should be enough for a classroom. You'll just need to figure out how to keep a track of them all as they're pocketable.

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You'll just need to figure out how to keep a track of them all as they're pocketable.

Samsung SmartTag3 attached to Roger Ons by loop? SmartTag2 is older, but hasbvery convenient hole.

That's not cost-effective rather, I give only potential possibilities.

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