The Relationship Between School Principals' Guidance of Prospective Teachers and Leadership Orientation

Abstract

In this study, which investigates the relationship between school principals' level of being able to guide prospective teachers in their schools and leadership orientations, data collected from 307 candidate teachers working in Şanlıurfa were analyzed. As a result of the study, it was found that school principals’ guidance and leadership orientations were at a moderate level, there is a high level of relationship between the level of guidance and leadership orientation, primary and high school principals provide better guidance to prospective teachers in the sub-dimension of education-teaching, school principals have better guidance to prospective teachers who have graduated from primary school teachers than prospective teachers with branch education and it was determined that leadership orientations did not differ according to gender, type of school, branch and task location.