Looking for an Upcoming Microsoft Certified Trainer Course? You Do Not Have to Wait to Build What Comes Next.
You may have arrived here looking for the date of the next Microsoft Certified Trainer instructional-skills course.
But your professional development no longer has to depend on waiting for the next scheduled cohort.
FDTEC Certified Instructor™ gives professionals a self-paced pathway for building portable professional instructor capability around the expertise they already possess.
Start when you are ready. Progress around your schedule. Build capability that can travel across technologies, clients, organizations, industries, and professional roles.
Your Next Opportunity Does Not Have to Wait for the Next Class Date.
Professional Development Should Fit Around Your Career—not Require You to Put It on Hold.
Scheduled classes can work well for some professionals.
But professionals today are balancing jobs, customers, implementations, projects, travel, families, deadlines, and rapidly changing technologies.
FDTEC's self-paced pathway gives you another option: develop when your schedule allows and keep moving toward a broader professional future.
Start on Your Schedule
Do not organize your professional development around one future class date.
Keep Working
Continue building your existing career while developing professional instructor capability.
Control Your Pace
Spend more time where you need it and move forward when you are ready.
Build Around Your Life
Fit development around work, projects, customers, travel, and family responsibilities.
Apply What You Learn
Connect instructor capability to real technical, consulting, customer, and workplace situations.
Build for What's Next
Develop capabilities designed to remain useful as technologies and professional roles evolve.
You Do Not Need to Wait for the Next Course to Start Building Your Next Professional Capability.
The Microsoft MCT Pathway Has Changed. FDTEC's Professional Instructor Mission Has Expanded.
This page originally promoted an upcoming Microsoft Certified Trainer instructional-skills class in North America.
That reflects an important part of FDTEC's history.
For more than two decades, professionals brought their Microsoft technical expertise to FDTEC to develop the professional capabilities behind effective instruction.
Today, FDTEC has taken that experience into a broader cross-platform professional instructor model.
Microsoft is part of our history. Professional instructor development is our business.
Build a Professional Capability That Goes Far Beyond One Platform.
The Next Evolution of Professional Instructor Development™
Cross-Platform Professional Instructor Certification Is Here.
Your expertise may begin in Microsoft, AWS, Linux, Cisco, cybersecurity, AI, cloud, data, healthcare technology, consulting, or another professional ecosystem.
Your professional instructor capability should belong to you—not to a vendor.
Build the Instructor Capability Above the Technology.
FDTEC Certified Instructor™
One Portable Cross-Platform Professional Instructor Capability
Knowledge Transfer Effectiveness™
Understanding → Retention → Application → Performance → Capability
Your technical certifications prove what you know. FCI develops and certifies your ability to transfer what you know—across platforms.
15 Professional Instructor Competencies. One Portable Professional Capability.
Communication & Presence
- Communication
- Active Listening
- Presentation
- Emotional Intelligence
- Executive Presence
Facilitation & Engagement
- Facilitation
- Questioning
- Classroom Management
- Conflict Resolution
- Adaptability
Development & Transfer
- Coaching
- Feedback
- Critical Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Knowledge Transfer
The Next Instructor Course Should Prepare You for the World AI Is Creating.
AI is changing how professionals research, prepare, communicate, create, analyze, personalize, and solve problems.
Professional instructor development has to evolve with it.
AI does not replace the professional instructor. It increases what a capable professional instructor can do.
Prepare Faster
Use AI to accelerate research, organization, examples, exercises, and preparation.
Adapt Faster
Create alternative explanations, questions, examples, and approaches for different audiences.
Develop Better Scenarios
Build realistic technical, business, customer, and problem-solving situations.
Strengthen Questioning
Expand diagnostic, analytical, reflective, coaching, and application questions.
Support More Practice
Give learners more opportunities to analyze, practice, solve, apply, and reflect.
Increase Productivity
Increase what you can accomplish with available time while maintaining professional judgment.
The Value of an Instructor Course Is Not the Course Completion. It Is What You Can Help Other People Do.
Professional instruction is not measured by how much information the instructor delivers.
The deeper objective is moving learners toward understanding, retention, application, performance, and capability.
Training Is Not the Objective. Capability Is.
The Bigger Question Is What Your Expertise Can Become.
The goal should not simply be adding another completed course to your professional history.
The goal is building another way for your existing expertise to create value.
Technical Training
Help professionals understand and apply complex technologies.
Consulting
Combine expertise with communication, facilitation, coaching, and client development.
Customer Education
Help customers understand, adopt, and create more value from products and services.
Implementation
Transfer knowledge during deployments, migrations, adoption, and change.
Internal Enablement
Multiply expertise across teams rather than allowing it to remain concentrated in individuals.
Coaching & Leadership
Help people practice, develop, solve problems, and become more independently capable.
One of the most important forms of professional freedom is having more than one way to create value.
Give Your Expertise More Ways to Work for You.
More Ways to Earn
Instructor capability can complement training, consulting, customer education, implementation, coaching, and enablement.
Greater Career Flexibility
Add another capability without abandoning the career you already built.
More Clients & Markets
Build portable capability that can support different organizations, technologies, customers, and industries.
Geographic Mobility
Professional instructor capability can travel as locations, employers, clients, and technologies change.
Greater Professional Independence
Build more control over how your existing expertise creates value.
A More Adaptable Future
Develop portable human capabilities that remain valuable as the job market changes.
More Capability Can Mean More Choices. More Choices Can Create Greater Professional Freedom.
25+ Years Developing the People Behind Technology Learning.
FDTEC was the longest-serving provider of MCT instructional-skills development before Microsoft moved that function in-house.
For more than two decades, professionals came to FDTEC with technical expertise already in hand.
Our role was developing the capabilities behind effective professional instruction.
Brand recognition is one thing. Twenty-five-plus years of professional instructor-development experience is another.
Modern Programs. Proven Foundation.
You Already Have the Expertise. Now Build the Capability to Transfer It.
Relevant Technical, Industry, or Professional Certification
A relevant certification can demonstrate the expertise you bring into FCI.
1+ Year of Relevant Professional Experience
Certification is not the only way to demonstrate professional expertise. FDTEC also recognizes relevant professional experience.
relevant certification OR 1+ year of relevant professional experience.
Candidates need only one accepted pathway. No degree required.
Two Self-Paced Professional Instructor Development Pathways.
FDTEC Certified Instructor™
Build and certify portable professional instructor capability around the expertise you already possess.
- 15 professional instructor competencies
- Cross-platform professional capability
- Knowledge Transfer Effectiveness™
- AI for Trainers, Facilitators, Coaches & Educators
- Professional instructor certification
- FDTEC credential verification
- 36-month credential validity
FCI Capstone Verified
Extend the FCI pathway with applied instructional-performance validation.
- Everything included in FCI
- Applied instructional performance
- Professional capability evaluation
- Knowledge-transfer application
- Enhanced evidence of applied capability
- Capstone Verified distinction
Develop the People Who Develop Everyone Else.
Organizations already employ trainers, SMEs, technical specialists, consultants, customer educators, implementation professionals, facilitators, managers, and technical leaders.
The opportunity is developing their ability to transfer expertise more effectively across the organization.
Subject Expertise → Professional Instructor Capability → AI Leverage → Knowledge Transfer Effectiveness™ → Learner Application → Workforce Performance → Organizational Capability
Continue Building Beyond the Certification.
Knowledge Transfer Effectiveness™
Explore the framework for moving learners from information toward applied capability.
Explore KTE™ →Professional Instructor Development Toolkit™
Practical resources for instructors, facilitators, coaches, SMEs, consultants, and learning leaders.
Explore the Toolkit →Professional Library
Explore research, white papers, professional frameworks, Instructor Toolkits™, Implementation Playbooks™, and guides.
Visit the Professional Library →Upcoming MCT Courses and FDTEC Professional Instructor Development
When is the next FDTEC professional instructor course?
FDTEC's FCI pathway is self-paced, allowing professionals to begin without waiting for a scheduled cohort.
Do I have to wait for an upcoming live class?
No. FDTEC Certified Instructor™ and FCI Capstone Verified are available as self-paced professional-development pathways.
Is FCI the same as Microsoft MCT?
No. Microsoft controls its MCT program. FDTEC Certified Instructor™ is FDTEC's cross-platform professional instructor certification.
Is FCI limited to Microsoft professionals?
No. FCI complements relevant technical, industry, and professional expertise across multiple platforms and industries.
Does FCI replace my technical certification?
No. Your technical certification demonstrates subject-matter expertise. FCI develops and certifies professional instructor capability.
What is the eligibility requirement?
relevant certification OR 1+ year of relevant professional experience. No degree is required.
How much is FDTEC Certified Instructor™?
The self-paced FDTEC Certified Instructor™ pathway is $1,497.
How much is FCI Capstone Verified?
The self-paced FCI Capstone Verified pathway is $2,497 and adds applied instructional-performance validation.
What is Knowledge Transfer Effectiveness™?
KTE™ focuses professional instruction on understanding, retention, application, performance, and capability.
How is AI used in FDTEC's instructor model?
AI supports preparation, scenario development, questioning, adaptation, coaching, practice, and professional productivity.
Does AI replace instructors?
No. AI does not replace the professional instructor. It increases what a capable professional instructor can do.
Can organizations develop multiple instructors through FDTEC?
Yes. FDTEC supports organizational professional instructor development for internal trainers, SMEs, customer educators, consultants, technical leaders, and other professionals responsible for developing people.
Your Next Professional Opportunity Does Not Have to Wait for the Next Course Date.
Build a Professional Capability That Goes Far Beyond One Platform.
The Next Evolution of Professional Instructor Development™
Cross-Platform Professional Instructor Certification Is Here.
Existing Expertise → Professional Instructor Capability → AI Leverage → Knowledge Transfer Effectiveness™ → More Ways to Create Value → More Roles → More Clients → More Technologies → More Markets → Greater Career Portability
Your technical certifications prove what you know. FCI develops and certifies your ability to transfer what you know—across platforms.
AI does not replace the professional instructor. It increases what a capable professional instructor can do.
Training Is Not the Objective. Capability Is.
You Already Have the Expertise. Now Build the Capability to Transfer It.
Start When You Are Ready. Build for What's Next.