ESP teacher professional development during the COVID-19 era at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv polytechnic institute

This article analyses professional development, completed by 34 in-service ESP teachers of the Department English for Engineering No. 1 at Igor Sikorsky KPI during March-December 2020. In total 3344.3 hours teacher development were analysed. They confirmed certificates attendance and completion. A significant rise in number spend professionally developing was noticed compared to years before pandemic. Quantitative methods statistical mathematical processing used analyse data. Nine main categories outlined. ICT skills (51.8 % hours), teaching approaches, techniques (18.4 %), student assessment evaluation (14.5 %) distinguished as three top COVID-19 era department. Together these embraced approximately 85 all time, spent on growth KPI. Other six included: connections with other disciplines (6.6 academic publications research issues (4.8 international collaboration (2.1 behavior problems (1.6 language (0.2 curriculum (0.07 %). The results high demand learning new tools, platforms, Google services 2020, interest techniques, which can be era, ways assess evaluate students’ teacher’s performance. Webinars, online conferences courses turned out most popular forms Another discovered trend variety providers trainings era. list them included 37 different organisations, institutes centers, such Dinternal education, Training Center Linguist (Cambridge University Press), Educational project “Na urok”, Ukrainian Institute Information Technologies Education, Oxford Press, Macmillan Education others