Abstract: Mentoring is a kind of professional support that has been very popular in training beginner teachers and principals in education and several studies has been done during the last two decades. The purpose of this study was to examine the literature related to mentoring with the emphasis of its benefits for school principals. The article focuses on principal mentoring since preparation of new principals to the position adequately is really crucial in ensuring students are educated in effective schools. The key conclusions in the literature indicate that school principals who were trained through a mentoring process gained great benefits from the mentoring process in the most troublesome period of their early professional life.
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Keywords: Mentoring, new principals, principal mentoring, school administration
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