Processes of modernization of teacher education in Russia at the end of 2019-2020 were significantly complicated by the outbreak of coronavirus infection. One of the urgent measures was the transfer of the work of educational organizations to a remote mode of work. The organization of online interaction assumed the use of special techniques for building the educational process, forms of control, methods of communication through Internet technology, as well as specially undertaken organizational and administrative measures. The purpose of the study is to identify and scientifically substantiate certain aspects of the teaching methodology of pedagogy by means of distance learning in the context of the 2019-2020 pandemic. The article specifies certain features of pedagogy as an academic discipline: the use of a plurality of methodological pedagogical knowledge, including that based on the theories of existentialism, neo-Thomism, pragmatism, neobehaviorism, etc .; orientation in the goal-setting of the process of preparing future teachers not so much on the ideas of globalism, but on the principles of practicality, moderation and attainability; formation of the content of the course of pedagogy in accordance with the educational order; practical orientation, subject-subject orientation of technologies for implementing the course of pedagogy; orientation of the monitoring of the quality of pedagogical education to the use of complex assessment tools that allow to establish not only the level of formation of cognitive, activity components, but also the emotional-value component of general professional competencies, etc. new educational tasks of the pedagogy course that arose in the context of the implementation of distance education are formulated, proposed for discussion some conclusions about teaching pedagogy by means of distance learning: about the features of goal-setting of the course of pedagogy, the content and technologies of organizing students' independent educational activities, about the need to use subject-oriented learning technology, about the forms of organizing the educational process, etc.