BE A HERO
Six Reasons to Serve as a DECA Advisor
The benefits of serving as a DECA advisor directly impact students, teachers, classrooms, schools and communities. Our professional network also allows DECA advisors to share resources and ideas among colleagues and enhance their skills through advisor professional development.
Enrich Your Teaching + Support Your Students' Learning
- DECA’s Comprehensive Learning Program supports the Career Clusters® of marketing, business management, finance and hospitality and tourism. DECA activities align your program with national curriculum standards.
- DECA also promotes entrepreneurship education, as well as personal financial literacy.
- Integrate DECA activities that teach or reinforce specific career and academic standards, as well as important 21st Century Skills.
- DECA provides support for students to practice their management and leadership skills by incorporating project management into the curriculum.
Bring Your Classroom to Life
- Facilitate career preparation and goal setting among your students with DECA’s Comprehensive Learning Program, including case studies connected to national curriculum standards, and outlines for business operations research, entrepreneurship plans, project management and integrated marketing campaigns.
- DECA’s Classroom Connection provides advisors with a weekly lesson plan and resources such as videos, digital classroom activities and seminars.
- Extend learning beyond the classroom by involving business professionals in classroom activities, projects, internships and field trips. Partnerships with businesses at local and broader levels provide DECA members realistic insight into industry and promote meaningful, relevant learning.
Motivate Students While Preparing Them for College and Careers
- Empower your DECA members to practice effective leadership through a chapter leadership team reflecting a corporate leadership structure.
- Bring visibility and recognition opportunities to your school.
- Promote your program by aligning with DECA, a recognizable brand that can translate to opportunities for your students through graduation.
- Communicate curriculum standards and the value of involvement in DECA to counselors and administrators to build support for your classes and program.
- As in the global economy, a spark of competition drives DECA members to excel and improve their performance.
Access High-Quality Professional Development
- DECA’s Professional Learning Series offers trainings, resources, and networking and information sharing opportunities to help DECA advisors maximize their effectiveness in the classroom. Topics include: Teaching and Learning Methods, DECA Chapter Strategy, and Business and Industry Trends.
- DECA’s Professional Learning Standards demonstrate and reinforce the important role of DECA advisors as they implement a successful DECA chapter.
- DECA’s partners often provide exclusive scholarships for DECA advisors to use for continuing education and professional learning.
Engage in Our Professional Learning Community
- Instantly become part of a network of thousands of colleagues who teach the same courses in business, marketing, finance, hospitality, entrepreneurship and personal finance.
- Smaller networks within your DECA district and association get you connected to those more geographically central to you.
- DECA’s Advisor Mentoring Network is a comprehensive program designed to support new DECA advisors.
Your Students Will Thank You
- DECA can unlock opportunities for your members through unforgettable learning experiences, travel and scholarships, all while preparing for college and careers.
- DECA members are ambitious, high-achieving leaders equipped to conquer the challenges of their aspirations.
- Recognizing the benefit of service and responsibility to the community, DECA members continually impact and improve their communities.
- DECA members are professionals with ethics, integrity and high standards.
- DECA provides support for students to practice their management and leadership skills by incorporating project management into the curriculum.
