The theme of CICME 2020 event is “Mentoring and Professional Development for Educators” and the objectives are as follows:

1. To provide a forum for research findings from the international community;
2. To introduce new pathways to excellence in education through action and innovation;
3. To share best teaching practices and use research findings to solve school problems;
4. To share mentoring experiences and skills;
5. To establish partnership and collaborations between researchers across the globe;
6. To disseminate results of thesis/dissertation activities in tertiary education; and
7. To draw new perspectives in solving educational and organizational problems and issues.

The theme of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• Principles and Systems of Mentoring
• Research and Mentoring, Research on Mentoring
• Mentoring in a Digital World
• Becoming an Effective Mentor
• Professional Ethics & Mentoring
• Research on Mentoring for Industrial Revolution 4.0
• Measuring Mentor Performance
• Best Practices in Mentoring
• Emerging Theories on Mentoring
• Research Reviews of the Literature (RRL) on Mentoring
• New Framework for Mentoring in an Asian Context
• Mentoring Across Borders
• Peer Mentoring/ Peer Tutoring
• Overview of mentoring systems in the world
• The mentoring system promoted by the New Generation Pedagogical Research
• Center (School-Based Mentors)
• Experiences in mentoring, a review of the first practicum of NGPRC
• Remote mentoring with the Observic Platform, a revolutionary mentoring software
• Mentoring vs. Inspection (School inspections in Singapore)
• Professional Learning Community Development (PLC)
• Crisis in teacher recruitment (Comparing the teacher vocation crisis in the West and
• in developing countries)
• Assessing mentoring systems
• Reforming the teacher training system in Cambodia and the Region
• Decentralized School Management Systems in Cambodia (e.g., New Generation
• School Reforms)
• Trying New Teaching Methods: Risk and Feedback
• Teacher training in the NGS network (PPP interactions between NGOs and the
• Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport)
• Policy Shifts Away from In-service Teacher Training to School-based Mentoring
• Alternative Approaches to Teacher Education (How can schools train their teachers
• when they don’t follow the mainstream approaches?)