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International Conference on Education and Teacher Development

Welcome Note from

Director
Institute of Teacher Education
Ipoh Campus

In the name of Allah, the most Gracious and Most Merciful.

I am grateful to the Almighty because with His grace and blessings, Institute of Teacher Education Ipoh
Campus, for the first time has successfully organized an International Conference on Education and
Teacher Development at Casuarina Meru Hotel Ipoh this year.

I would like to express my appreciation and thanks to our Minister of Education and the Rector of
Institute of Teacher Education Malaysia for their unfailing support. Not forgetting our presenters and
participants who have come from all over Malaysia as well as overseas for consenting to participate in
this conference to share their knowledge and expertise. Let us take this opportunity to pool our ideas
and resources together for the development and dignity of the education knowledge internationally.

The theme that has been chosen for this conference is in accordance with the world scenario of
education today. We all know that the world of education is dynamic, always changing and will
continue to change in line with the growth and development in science and technology. Hence, we as
educators should heed the call to embrace this change and the best mechanism for this is migration.
Migration not just in terms of physical changes of behavior but more importantly is the migration of our
minds. This is essential because our minds control all our actions. Competent behaviors are a mirror of
a healthy and current mind. Individuals who do not leap forward and move together with the
development as well as always giving limited responses to the current challenges are those who are
passive and pessimistic.

I would also like to take this opportunity to record my word of thanks to the Conference Organizing
Committee for their total cooperation and commitment. I pray that this conference will benefit all of us
and become the starting point of our success in the future.

Finally, I would like to once again congratulate all our participants and presenters for their research
papers. I hope that this conference will run smoothly and achieve its objectives and thus spearheading
our country’s education to a brilliant and glorious level.

Thank you.
Happy Conferencing!

Dr.Yahya bin Osman
Director
Institute ofTeacher Education Ipoh Campus

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