Becoming a Qualified Educator

Qualified Educators teach and certify on behalf of the Society. This page explains what you need, how the process works and what it costs.

What you need before you start

• A clean ethical record. No open complaints against you under our Code of Ethics.
• A connection to Europe. You live permanently in Europe, or you are a European national or former resident with strong, ongoing professional, cultural or institutional ties to Europe.
• The right certification. You hold the highest-level certification of the track that contains the modules you want to teach. It must be active and visible on your Society profile.

Your mentor

You work with an Educator Mentor. Any current Qualified Educator can take this role. Together you plan your personal development path. At the start, your mentor estimates how much time and effort the mentoring will take.

When you finish, someone other than your mentor confirms it. Mentors never certify their own mentees.

Teaching experience

Show that you have guided others through learning. Training, mentoring and coaching all count, and so does any mix of them. Managing a team at work does not. You need:

• at least 8 guidance events
• with at least 60 participants in total

At least 3 of these events must be co-trainings on the modules you want to teach. Each co-training:

• lasts at least 16 hours
• is run together with an existing Qualified Educator
• includes at least 4 hours that you deliver yourself

Your mentor may suggest more co-trainings if you need them.

Growing as a teacher

Show us that you:

• act on feedback from participants and co-trainers, and reflect on your own practice
• bring your real-world work in these subjects into your teaching
• take an active part in professional communities, to stay current and share what you learn

Your course materials

Send us the latest version of your materials for every module you plan to teach. If you use material created by someone else, show how you adapted it to your style, your participants and your own experience.

Already a trainer elsewhere?

If you hold a guide-level certification from CST, CSAT, CTC, CEC or PST, you can already teach towards our equivalent certificates:

• Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs) with PSM/PSPO-Training accreditation from Scrum.org can offer QSM-1 and QSPO-1 Beginner Level certifications, including all contained training modules.
• Certified Scrum Trainers (CSTs) with Path to CSP-SM accreditation from Scrum Alliance can offer QSM-1 through QSM-3, including all contained modules.
• Certified Team Coaches (CTCs) or Certified Enterprise Coaches (CECs) with previous CSPO/A-CSPO Educator accreditation from Scrum Alliance can offer QSPO-1 and QSPO-2.

To teach anything beyond these, follow the process on this page.

We accredit you module by module, so you can combine modules to fit your background. You can grant a certification once you are accredited for all of its modules. See our certifications for which modules each one contains.

Teaching more certifications

To add certifications later:

• complete QSM-3 if you haven’t already
• complete all modules of the certifications you want to teach, ideally by earning the matching certifications
• show how the learning objectives of those certificate levels map onto your curriculum

Fees

While you apply

From 2027, the Society charges each candidate an application fee of €250. If you are already in the approval process, finish it before 2027 to avoid the fee. We will contact all current candidates about this.

Your mentor may charge separately, for example for travel and operating costs.

Once you are a Qualified Educator

Each calendar year you choose one of two models:

* You pay for an additional certification type only once you register participants for it.

Which suits you? Flexible is meant for educators who certify a few people a year. If you certify four or more people a year in one certification type, Standard costs less.

Choosing and switching

• Standard is the default. To use Flexible, tell the Board by 1 December of the year before.
• You can move from Flexible to Standard at any time during the year. You pay the difference of €750, and Standard fees apply from then on. Only one certification type stays included after the switch, but you pay nothing extra for types you had already used.

Paying

• The annual fee is due by 31 January. If you join during the year, you pay only for the quarters that remain.
• Certification fees are due when you register participants for certification.
• If a payment is more than 30 days late, we send you a reminder. After 60 days, your right to propose people for certification and to advertise with our certificates and your membership is suspended.

This is a summary of the Society’s Contribution Regulations, version 2.0, adopted by the General Meeting on 25 June 2026. Where the two differ, the Contribution Regulations apply.

Questions?

We’re happy to talk about your path to becoming a Qualified Educator.

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