How to be a Microsoft Certified Trainer
Your Professional Opportunity Is Bigger Now.
Build a Professional Capability That Goes Far Beyond One Platform.
The Next Evolution of Professional Instructor Development™
Cross-Platform. Cross-Industry. Professional Instructor Certification Is Here.
Build professional teaching, facilitation, coaching, and knowledge-transfer capabilities that extend your subject expertise.
Build a Professional Capability That Goes Far Beyond One Platform
Build a Professional Capability That Goes Far Beyond One Platform.
If you already possess technical, industry, professional, or occupational expertise, you have something valuable: knowledge developed through certification, experience, practice, and real-world problem solving.
The next opportunity is learning how to transfer that expertise effectively to other people.
Professional instructor capability can extend what you already know into training, facilitation, coaching, customer education, consulting, technology adoption, workforce development, and other professional opportunities.
Professional Instructors Build on Expertise They Already Possess
Professional Instructors Build on Expertise They Already Possess.
You do not have to abandon your existing profession, technology, industry, certifications, or experience to become a professional instructor. You develop another professional capability around what you already know.
Your technical, professional, industry, or occupational knowledge remains the foundation.
Develop the human capabilities required to communicate, facilitate, coach, question, adapt, and transfer knowledge.
Apply the combination across employers, clients, technologies, industries, learning
Apply the combination across employers, clients, technologies, industries, learning environments, and professional roles.
Expertise Is the Foundation. Professional Instructor Capability Multiplies What You Can Do With It.
FDTEC's pathway starts with existing expertise and builds the professional capability needed to help other people understand, apply, and perform.
Bring relevant technical, industry, professional, or occupational knowledge to the pathway.
Build communication, facilitation, coaching, presentation, problem-solving, and knowledge-transfer
Build communication, facilitation, coaching, presentation, problem-solving, and knowledge-transfer capability.
Learn how AI can support preparation, content, scenarios, practice, coaching, personalization, and productivity.
Complete the program and certification assessment to earn FDTEC Certified Instructor™.
Use professional instructor capability inside training, consulting, customer education, technology adoption, or workforce development.
Carry the capability across technologies, employers, industries, and clients
Carry the capability across technologies, employers, industries, and clients.
Keep strengthening subject expertise, instructor capability, AI leverage, and professional judgment.
Expertise Alone Is Valuable. Expertise + Instructor Capability + AI Leverage Creates More Ways to Contribute.
Know the technology, profession, industry, process, or discipline.
Use AI to increase preparation, adaptability, creativity, and productivity
Use AI to increase preparation, adaptability, creativity, and productivity.
Help other people move from information toward application and performance.
Professional instruction requires more than speaking confidently or presenting slides. FCI develops a broader human capability framework.
Move expertise toward understanding, application, and performance.
Professional Instruction Is About What Learners Can Eventually Do
Professional Instruction Is About What Learners Can Eventually Do.
The goal is not simply delivering information. Professional instructors help move knowledge toward understanding, retention, application, and performance.
Cross-Platform Is Only Part of the Future. Professional Instructors Also Need AI Leverage.
AI changes how professional instructors can prepare, create, adapt, practice, coach, personalize, and work.
Candidates Qualify Through One Accepted Pathway
One accepted pathway means you need only one of these three.
1. Relevant Certification
A recognized technical, industry, professional, occupational, or other relevant certification.
2. 1+ Year Relevant Professional Experience
At least one year of relevant professional experience in the candidate’s field of expertise.
3. Employer Verification
Employer verification confirming relevant professional expertise.
Certification OR Experience OR Employer Verification
Questions About Professional Instructor Certification
Who can qualify for FDTEC Certified Instructor™?
Candidates qualify through one accepted pathway: a recognized relevant certification, one or more years of relevant professional experience, or employer verification of relevant expertise.
Is AI training included?
Yes. AI for Trainers, Facilitators, Coaches & Educators is included.
What is the difference between Standard FCI and Capstone Verified?
Standard FCI includes the self-paced certification program and assessment. Capstone Verified adds applied performance validation.
How long is FCI valid?
The FCI credential is valid for 36 months, with a streamlined renewal process.
Professional Instructor Development for a Larger Market
Cross-Platform. Cross-Industry. Professional Instructor Certification Is Here.