3 Seeds mentoring group is a movement.
We are a collective of passionate college and career success coaches who help students to develop their own individual life roadmaps.Our goal is to expose them to as many different hands on experiences as possible in hopes of them connecting with a path that directly speaks to their natural ability and destiny. On their unique journey towards self-awareness we are the tour guides assigned to them during this season to assist and develop them along the way. Our end goal is to help our students attain their life goals beyond their high school diploma and introduce each student to who they were always meant to be.
Here is an excerpt from an article that we found online that describes the importance of Career simulations and how they can better prepare students for the workforce:
Career educators and counselors have long recognized that factual information about careers and employability skills, presented in traditional classroom formats, insufficiently prepares students to enter an increasingly complex workplace.Various authors (e.g., Barth, 1984; Klausmeier & Daresh, 1983) have suggested that a shift toward a stronger experiential learning focus in career education could help students make the transition from fact-based learning about employment to skilled job performance. These suggestions have led to an increase in experiential career education initiatives such as work experience, job shadowing, and co-op education. Workplace simulations are an effective way to bridge the gap between students’ initial cognitive understanding of employability skills and their full engagement in the workplace environment.
We have successfully created simulations with the Chicago Police Department in partnership with the Illinois State Police creating a 3 day traffic reconstruction program where students were able to go out into a recreated crash scene and process it with the actual tools and forms that are used on the job. It was an amazing experience and we would like to do more experiences like this for our students in the near future!