FDE Teacher Training

GROW by Good Combinator

Teacher training companion for the FDE Certification Program

Instructor materials for the FDE Certification Program, part of GROW by Good Combinator. These materials complement the trainee-facing course at fde.goodcombinator.ai. They help instructors prepare, facilitate, assess, and hand off each numbered course without changing the learner curriculum.

Courses 8

Aligned to the existing numbered sequence

Lessons 76

Teacher notes follow trainee lesson numbering

Seat time 130 hr 45 min

Based on the current lesson roster

How to use these materials

  • Start with the course guide before teaching any trainee lesson.
  • Use each lesson teaching note to choose the opener, live practice, artifact, and formative check.
  • Keep evidence standards visible so learners know what must be inspectable.
  • Use the handoff notes to prepare learners for the next course.

Instructor operating rhythm

  • Prepare: review the trainee lesson, decide the artifact, and name the operational risk.
  • Facilitate: frame briefly, model once, move to learner production, and review evidence.
  • Assess: score artifacts against the course evidence standard, not confidence or participation.
  • Transfer: connect the output to capstone, partner, or practice-building work.

Evidence review routine

  1. Ask what claim the learner is making.
  2. Ask what artifact or observation supports it.
  3. Ask what assumption remains unproven.
  4. Ask what next field decision the evidence should inform.

Course guides

Course 1

Course 1 - FDE Foundations and Persona

Help instructors turn the FDE identity, lifecycle, and evidence habits into observable field behavior instead of inspirational language.

Lessons
8
Seat time
11 hr 30 min

Course 2

Course 2 - Mindsets and Strategy

Help instructors teach discovery, decomposition, answer-first communication, systems thinking, and judgment as teachable operating routines.

Lessons
9
Seat time
12 hr 30 min

Course 3

Course 3 - Agentic Architecture

Help instructors teach agentic system design as production architecture, not model fascination.

Lessons
15
Seat time
31 hr 30 min

Course 4

Course 4 - Lifecycle and Deployment

Help instructors teach the full implementation lifecycle from discovery through adoption, with observability and evals treated as first-class work.

Lessons
12
Seat time
27 hr 45 min

Course 5

Course 5 - Vertical Specializations

Help instructors teach vertical translation: the same FDE method must adapt to domain risks, users, regulation, and operating constraints.

Lessons
8
Seat time
15 hr

Course 6

Course 6 - Partnerships and Go-To-Market

Help instructors teach partner work as a disciplined operating system for co-selling, co-building, qualification, and joint delivery.

Lessons
8
Seat time
10 hr 30 min

Course 7

Course 7 - Senior FDE Practice Leadership

Help instructors teach senior FDE behavior: coaching others, hiring, operating cadence, eval hygiene, difficult conversations, and career architecture.

Lessons
8
Seat time
10 hr 45 min

Course 8

Course 8 - Founder Path and Practice Building

Help instructors teach practice-building: pricing, selling, thought leadership, unit economics, agreements, hiring, and the 18-month founder plan.

Lessons
8
Seat time
11 hr 15 min