Looking for an MCT Course After Earning Microsoft Certifications? The Professional Opportunity Is Now Much Bigger.
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.
You invested in Microsoft expertise
You invested in Microsoft expertise. Now build the professional capability to communicate it, teach it, facilitate around it, coach others through it, and transfer it effectively.
Your certification proves what you know. Your professional instructor capability determines how effectively you can help other people use what you know.
You Already Have the Expertise. Now Build the Capability to Transfer It.
Technical certification and professional instruction are different capabilities—and exceptionally powerful when combined.
Your Microsoft Certification Can Be the Foundation
Your Microsoft Certification Can Be the Foundation. It Does Not Have to Be the Boundary.
If you arrived here searching for an MCT course after earning Microsoft certifications, you are likely looking for a way to turn technical expertise into the ability to teach or develop other professionals.
Microsoft controls the Microsoft Certified Trainer program, including its current eligibility, enrollment, renewal, and credential requirements.
FDTEC focuses on something broader: professional instructor capability that can complement your Microsoft expertise and move with you beyond a single technology ecosystem.
Today's technology professional may work across Microsoft, AWS, cybersecurity, AI, cloud, data, consulting,…
Today's technology professional may work across Microsoft, AWS, cybersecurity, AI, cloud, data, consulting, healthcare technology, implementation, and professional services during the same career.
Your professional instructor capability should belong to you.
Technical Certification Establishes Expertise. Professional Instructor Development Multiplies Its Reach.
A Microsoft credential can validate technical knowledge. Professional instructor capability develops your ability to make that knowledge useful to other people.
Turn complex technical concepts into language and examples that learners, customers, and stakeholders can…
Turn complex technical concepts into language and examples that learners, customers, and stakeholders can understand.
Structure technical demonstrations so people understand both what is happening and why it matters.
Guide discussions, questions, exercises, and collaborative technical problem solving.
Help professionals work through uncertainty, mistakes, and application challenges.
Communicate with structure, confidence, executive presence, and professional credibility
Communicate with structure, confidence, executive presence, and professional credibility.
Use purposeful questions to uncover understanding and stimulate critical thinking.
Respond effectively to different technologies, audiences, learning environments, and professional contexts.
Move beyond information delivery toward understanding, retention, application, and capability.
FDTEC recognizes that serious professional expertise can be demonstrated through both credentials and…
FDTEC recognizes that serious professional expertise can be demonstrated through both credentials and real-world professional experience.
Microsoft certification is one strong foundation for FCI. Relevant credentials from other major technical and professional ecosystems can also establish subject-matter expertise.
Professional expertise is not demonstrated by certification alone. Relevant real-world experience can also provide the foundation for professional instructor development.
Microsoft certifications change. Technologies change. Platforms change. The professional need to communicate, facilitate, coach, solve problems, engage learners, and transfer expertise remains.
FDTEC was the longest-serving provider of MCT instructional-skills development before Microsoft moved that…
FDTEC was the longest-serving provider of MCT instructional-skills development before Microsoft moved that function in-house.
That history gave FDTEC decades of experience working with certified technical professionals who already possessed subject expertise and needed to develop the human capabilities required to transfer it.
Brand recognition is one thing. Twenty-five-plus years of professional instructor-development experience is another.
FDTEC's professional instructor-development perspective has been shaped through experience across major technology and professional ecosystems.
We Understand the Difference Between Earning the Certification and Transferring the Expertise
We Understand the Difference Between Earning the Certification and Transferring the Expertise.
Technical certification demonstrates knowledge and capability within a subject or technology domain.
Communication, facilitation, questioning, coaching, feedback, adaptability, presentation, and problem solving develop the human side of technical expertise.
Knowledge Transfer Effectiveness™ connects instruction with understanding, retention, application, and usable capability.
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.