There is a need for professional training of university teachers in accordance with modern requirements. The requirements for the teacher's psycho-pedagogical competence are constantly becoming more complicated. Competent approach to the training of modern specialists puts in the number of prime importance not only the problem of forming the socio-professional competencies of students, but also the development of the teacher's psychological-pedagogical competence. New forms and methods of training on the basis of computer technology are becoming widespread in universities. The implementation of information technology in the higher school educational process promotes a number of new requirements for the professional competence of the teacher.