ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the broad set of conditions within the school that enable facilitate mentorship. Students recognized that despite the deputy’s other commitments they were often getting a good mentorship experience. The chapter describes the behaviour of headteachers from case study material and analyzes this in respect of the conditions for effectiveness of mentorship. Headteachers may have identified them as the teacher most likely to have the skills and qualities to ensure an effective mentorship. The headteacher was found to be an ingredient in ensuring the effectiveness of the mentoring experience for the students in several of the case studies. Where headteachers sought to create conditions in which their staff could develop professionally they also provided conditions in which mentors and students could flourish. Mentors and students benefited from heads who bore the characteristics of effective headteachers portrayed in other studies of headteachers’ roles in effective schools.
