Principal Mentoring

Expand and enhance your leadership capability with the support of a mentor.

Principal Mentoring provides you with support from a trusted former Victorian government school principal with first-hand experience and an understanding of the exciting, unique and challenging aspects of the role.

You’ll be matched with a mentor according to your learning needs and the context of your school setting. The mentoring experience involves shaping your own outcomes with advice, guidance and informed opinions of your mentor on a range of aspects.

Mentors use their own experiences to articulate how you can deal with situations and provide advice and guidance on how to proceed. 

Audience

Designed for Victorian government school principals and acting principals at any stage of their career.

Acting principals must be acting for at least one term at the time of registering to be eligible for this program. 

Facilitators

Mentors for Principal Mentoring are highly skilled, retired principals specifically trained to support the program.

Mentors have expertise in a range of areas including leading pedagogy, data analysis, human resource and financial management, technical skills, change management and innovation.

Structure of program

You will have access to 8 hours of mentoring over 8 months.

The program allows you to manage when and how you access support within the 8 month timeframe.

You may choose to have your initial face to face session in your school or online.  All subsequent sessions will be held online or via telephone.

Learning outcomes

You will:

• enhance your leadership capability by reflecting on your current leadership practice
• explore new responsibilities and improved performance
• view feedback as an integral part of improving your performance
• acquire new skills and knowledge from your mentor
• accept responsibility for your development and growth.

Fees and financial support

Fully subsidised by the Academy for Victorian government school participants.

Additional financial support for government schools

Victorian school participants may be eligible for additional subsidies.

Fees and financial support

Application process

Ensure you provide as much detail as you can when answering the questions, as this information is used to assist with the matching process, and ensures you are matched with a suitable mentor.

It is expected you will be allocated a mentor within 2 weeks of submitting your application.