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    The importance of mentorship: exploring the experiences of novice teachers in Chile
    (Universidad Andrés Bello, 2016) Benavente, Paula; Bohle, Nataly; Sánchez Pérez, Patricia; Facultad de Educación
    Mentorship is considered essential for providing novice teachers with a successful performance at the beginning of their careers since the first year of work as teachers has an important impact on the development of the future profession. The present study aims at exploring the experiences of novice teachers, who have been part of a mentorship program in Chile, in order to understand whether this program achieves the aim for which it was created or if it needs to be modified to make it a successful program. The subjects who participated in this research study belong to one public school called ―Liceo Bicentenario de Niñas‖ located in Santiago, Chile. The design of this investigation follows the features of qualitative research which is best suited for this study since its main concern is to know a particular phenomenon. Furthermore, the tradition of this study is a phenomenological study since it describes the meaning for individuals of their lived experiences of a concept or phenomenon. These participants answered a semi-structured interview which provides with several questions for interviewers and can provide with reliable, comparable qualitative data. Finally, the results showed that the Mentorship Program has both, positive and negative impact on novice teachers. In fact, there were three main aspects that are worth mentioning. Those aspects are: its importance, the areas that need to be improved and the suggestions given by the novice teachers.