Hello and welcome back to the YouTube channel where if you try hard enough you can become the next DECA GOAT. Today we're going to take a deep dive into something that as a DECA advisor I knew nothing about for the first couple of years and I was searching for this year and couldn't find until just this past weekend. The DECA District Instructional Areas for District Competition. areas for your district competition. If you know these, you can dominate at districts. So let's dig in. In your DECA event, if you are an individual or team series event, one-third of your overall score will be comprised of the cluster exam. Please see my most recent video about mastering the cluster exam for tips about how to get very good at that particular part of the score. 2 thirds of your score will be comprised of the roleplay. I have a great roleplay video that shows you everything you need to know about your roleplay. But this video is specifically about how to prepare for your district roleplay. Did you know that for your DECA district event, DECA Direct tells you explicitly what you need to do to master your roleplay? Most people don't even know that that exists. Each year in early October, DECA publishes this information about how to do your district roleplay. It was more hidden this year than normal. I was even looking for it and I continually missed it. This year's DECA Direct post is linked in the video below. Pro tip here I've learned after being a DECA advisor for the last six years. Go to DECA Direct every week and see what they publish for you. Your advisor or your Chartered Association advisor might not actually be telling you all the information. DECA Direct always has it for you. Now that you see the DECA Direct post, you the information. DECA Direct always has it for you. Now that you see the DECA Direct post, you will see that DECA tells you about the instructional areas for your district role play. If you are in an individual series event, they show you two instructional areas for which you need to prepare. If you're in a principals or a team event, they show you the one specifically that you'll be instructed on. The instructional area clues you into the specific performance indicators that will be part of your role play case study. You can find the performance indicators on the DECA events webpage linked in the video description below. Knowing these two pieces of information folks helps you narrow down your focus when studying and preparing for your district's role play. Now that you have that information, how do you perform a good role play, take a look at my A-Z video about how to do well in a role play, linked in the little card that pops out up top. We also need to dig deeper into the DECA resources to find more things about our instructional area. To that, we can go to the DECA classroom webpage. With an event like Principles of Marketing, you were only told to prepare for one instructional area. This year, that is Customer Relations. None of the resources on this page directly relate to Principles of Marketing and Customer Relations, but each of the Customer Relations role plays on this webpage are built from the same performance indicators that your Principles of Marketing Customer Relations role play will be built from. So what you could do is practice from all of the customer relations role plays that are listed here and get very good and know that going into your principles of marketing district event, you've done everything you can to master that particular instructional area. In total, DECA has provided with 22 customer relations role plays. If you follow my role play tips in the role plays video that I have, you can absolutely crush this district event. Folks, I can't tell you enough how important it is to take all the information that DECA gives you and use it to your advantage to score very well in your district, state, or ICDC level competition. Most advisors and chartered association advisors will probably forget to tell you about the instructional areas for districts. I almost missed this year's too. If you found this video helpful, please hit the like button. If you'd love to see more content from me, please hit the subscribe button. And if you have questions or comments, please leave them in the comments down below. Make this your best DECA year yet, and good luck on your DECA success journey.


Summarize key points and info i should certainly take from this video transcript.