Abstract:

Introduction:
The COVID-19 pandemic has not changed the strategic plans of the leadership of the Don State Technical University (DSTU) regarding the implementation of additional education programs for university teachers of technical disciplines. The transition to distance learning is due to the university's participation in the Erasmus + “Engineering educators pedagogical training” program (598506-EPP-1-2018-1-PT-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP). This program is aimed at improving the pedagogical culture of technical university teachers.
The purpose of the study lies in the answer to the question: how was the program for assessing educational achievements in the field of pedagogical knowledge of university teachers implemented in the context of a sharp transition to distance technologies?

Research methods and participants:
We used experiment, content analysis, analysis of products of intellectual creativity, comparison, interpretation, survey, methods of visualizing research results.
Participants in the pilot program are 100 teachers mastering the program at the first level of vocational training and 52 participants who moved to the second level of training.

Results and discussion:
A feature of teaching courses in an online format was the use of double and interactive lectures with elements of visualization and interpolation control after each lecture. This allowed not to use testing as a method of control and registration of educational achievements. We used case technologies such as "Case in court", requiring an analytical approach to solving the problem, as well as seminars-discussions, seminars in the form of a press conference.
The experience of developing and implementing control measures in an online format following the results of training at the first level - the discipline "Time Management", is analyzed in detail.
Based on the analysis of the creative control task - the creation by the educators of a poster on the topic " My personal time management" - it was found that 79% of the participants presented the products of creative activity reflecting the basic principles of scientific personal time management. Sentences, which are the epigraph to posters, in 68% of cases are non-optimistic, the images have a clear shade of self-irony and regret about the rapid passage of time as a philosophical construct.
When studying the discipline "Educational Psychology" as a control event, each participant orally and/or in writing analyzed a real or imagined conflict situation and proposed a way to resolve it.

Conclusion:
The experience of using a non-standard approach to assessing the knowledge of engineering educators showed that the elements of reliance on personal experience and its visualization arouse interest in the system of pedagogical activity. This was reflected in the participation of 32% of educators in a thematic scientific conference, as well as in the expansion of communicative and professional interaction between participants, participation in the development of the Master's program "Higher School Teacher".

Keywords:

Covid-19, distance learning, engineering educators, forms of registration of educational achievements, pedagogical skills.