A disparity between the learning needs of individual pre-service teachers and the mentoring approach they experience may limit chances for pre-service teachers to reach their best possible levels of competence and may even lead to a pre-service teacher’s withdrawal from teacher education (Williams et al., 1998). Hence, training in mentoring skills is important for improving mentor teachers’ awareness of and proficiency in the use of those mentoring skills, which can offer an adequate combination of both types of assistance.