As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage, developing distance education competence became indispensible for pre-service teachers in the school of education. An instructional model called ‘CONTACTED model’ was developed and investigated if this model can be applicable for online teaching practice for pre-service teachers and how effective it would be. Ten volunteer junior pre-service English teachers at a school of education participated in the online teaching practice for three months, teaching 63 students from 18 high schools in the area. While going through the four steps; ‘Class content selection and video material creation,’ ‘online class operation,’ ‘online mentoring,’ and ‘online golden bell contest’; the pre-service teachers successfully applied four elements of the CONTACTED model including ‘(Authentic) Task,’ ‘Content,’ ‘Technology,’ and ‘Community.’ Additionally, they were able to enhance basic knowledge, class implementation, and student guidance competence. Through a survey and interviews, the pre-service teachers reported that they could develop the abilities of how to apply theory into practice(‘Content’), how to improve technical skills to deal with online videos and tools(‘Technology’), and how to communicate well with students with the help of other pre-service teachers, the supervisor, and assistance teachers(‘Community’). It is concluded that the CONTACTED instructional model was suitable for online teaching practice and effective for enhancing distance education competence for the pre-service teachers. Limitations and implications are presented as well.