Check out Ponder in real schools

Careers & Pathways Coordinator Joelle McCully joined the Ponder Program when it was first released in early 2022, as she immediately saw the opportunity to use the unique resources in her careers program.

Careers Advisor Tanya Allen talks about her use of the Ponder Program resources and Career Clusters to support her cohort of Year 10 students to think more widely about their career options.

Careers Advisor Terence Priester talks with Rob Sattler from Study Work Grow about using the Ponder Program & Career Clusters at Newington College

“You can’t be what you can’t see”. A visual example of career education materials being used across multiple school settings.

Careers Advisor Helsa Niranjan talks about her experience of using the Career Clusters and Ponder Program at Greenacre Baptist Community Christian School.

High School Career Practitioner Kevin McDonald was looking for a way of getting career education into a busy curriculum at his school. By equipping his home room teachers with short Ponder Program lessons that are pre-prepared, he’s gotten important career concepts into Years 10, 11, and 12 with ease this year.

Careers Advisor Susan Draysey talks about her use of the Career Clusters student quiz and resources in her Year 10 careers program at Trinity Grammar School.

Careers Educators Sandie & Tarree were looking for a structured career education program to run in their Year 9 & 10 Personal Learning classes and they found the Ponder Program (due to its flexibility and ease of delivery for general educators) was perfect for this. Read on to see how they used it in their school setting and what their experience of the program was.

For each Ponder Program lesson there’s a short, student-friendly video resource to accompany it, designed specifically to promote engagement. There are lots of ways to access and use them.

You can use Ponder to create a comprehensive career education program for one of your year levels

Deliver over 6 hours of Career Education to every student each year simply by including the Ponder Program for 10 minutes in your Weekly Assembly; an increase of at least 4 hours over the amount a normal school will deliver to each student

Naomi Gill, Careers Counsellor & Pathways Specialist at Carroll College Broulee and Trinity Catholic College Goulburn shares her insights into incorporating the Ponder Program into her schools

The program’s flexibility makes it easy to deliver career education lessons.