How to Become a Professional Technical Instructor
AI for Trainers, Facilitators, Coaches & Educators — Included with FCI.
If you are exploring a Microsoft Certified Trainer path, there is a good chance you already possess valuable technical expertise and want to do more with it.
How to Become a Professional Technical Instructor: Develop Portable Professional Instructor Capability
If you are exploring a Microsoft Certified Trainer path, there is a good chance you already possess valuable technical expertise and want to do more with it.
Professional context
You may want to teach. You may want to train customers. You may want to coach technical teams, facilitate implementation, lead enablement, or turn your expertise into a broader professional capability.
Practical application
FDTEC Certified Instructor™ develops the professional instructor capability that can move with you across technologies, employers, industries, clients, and learning environments.
Knowledge transfer
You Already Have the Expertise. Now Build the Capability to Transfer It.
Career opportunity
Expertise creates credibility. Professional instructor capability creates reach.
FCI develops 15 transferable professional instructor competencies: communication, active listening, facilitation, emotional intelligence, presentation, questioning, classroom management, conflict resolution, executive presence, coaching, feedback, adaptability, critical thinking, problem solving, and knowledge transfer.
Transfer What You Know. Develop What Others Can Do.
Technical or occupational expertise provides the subject foundation. Professional instructor capability strengthens communication, facilitation, coaching, and the application of knowledge in real work.
Any One of These Three Pathways Qualifies
Recognized Certification
Relevant technical, industry, professional, or occupational certification.
Professional Experience
At least one year of relevant professional experience.
Employer Verification
An employer verification letter confirming relevant expertise.
Only one accepted pathway is required. No college degree is required.
Choose Your Professional Instructor Certification Pathway
FDTEC Certified Instructor™
Develop professional instructor competencies around the expertise you already possess. Includes the AI module, digital credential, and lifetime course access.
Explore Standard FCIFCI Capstone Verified
Extend the FCI pathway with applied instructional performance verification.
Explore Capstone VerifiedApplying Instructor Capability in This Professional Context
If you are exploring a Microsoft Certified Trainer path, there is a good chance you already possess valuable technical expertise and want to do more with it.
If you are exploring a Microsoft Certified Trainer path, there is a good chance you already possess valuable technical expertise and want to do more with it.
You may want to teach. You may want to train customers. You may want to coach technical teams, facilitate implementation, lead enablement, or turn your expertise into a broader professional capability.
FDTEC Certified Instructor™ develops the professional instructor capability that can move with you across technologies, employers, industries, clients, and learning environments.
You Already Have the Expertise. Now Build the Capability to Transfer It.
Expertise creates credibility. Professional instructor capability creates reach.
Start by Understanding What You Actually Want to Become Capable of Doing.
Searching for how to become an MCT often signals something bigger than interest in a credential.
It often means you want to use your technical expertise to teach, explain, coach, facilitate, influence, develop, or enable other people.
The opportunity is to become the professional who can turn complex expertise into understanding, application, confidence, and performance.
Professional instructor capability creates value anywhere your success depends on helping other people understand and apply expertise.
Teach technology to professionals who need to understand and apply it.
Translate complex expertise into understanding, decisions, and action.
Transfer knowledge during deployments, migrations, modernization, and adoption.
Multiply expertise across teams instead of allowing knowledge to remain concentrated.
Connect subject-matter expertise with customer and business outcomes.
Help others build confidence, capability, and independent performance.
Facilitate decisions, communicate complexity, and strengthen team capability.
You Can Know the Technology Without Yet Knowing How to Develop Other People.
Qualification and Certification Assessment
Candidates qualify through one accepted pathway: a relevant technical, industry, professional, or occupational certification; at least one year of relevant professional experience; or employer verification of relevant expertise. No degree required.
The FCI assessment includes 50 questions, a two-hour time limit, a 75% passing score, and multiple attempts.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the AI module included with FCI?
Yes. AI for Trainers, Facilitators, Coaches & Educators is included with FCI.
How do I qualify for FCI?
Candidates qualify through one accepted pathway: a relevant technical, industry, professional, or occupational certification; at least one year of relevant professional experience; or employer verification of relevant expertise. No degree is required.
What is the FCI certification assessment?
The assessment has 50 questions, a two-hour time limit, a 75% passing score, and multiple attempts.
What are the self-paced program prices?
FDTEC Certified Instructor™ is $1,497. FCI Capstone Verified is $2,497.
How long is the FCI credential valid?
The FCI credential is valid for 36 months.
Expand Where Your Expertise Can Take You.
Cross-Platform. Cross-Industry. Professional Instructor Certification Is Here.