Assessing Wellness

Here are a few ideas to think about when it comes to assessing the wellness of your students:

Rubrics: At age appropriate level work with your students to design a rubric for each strength and for each PERMAH pillar. Here is a sample rubric for grit written for high school students. The rubric creator Rubistar can help with this process.
Survey: The Institute of Positive Education provides a survey to measure students with their PERMAH and Character Strengths. It is for students ages 8-18.
Visible Thinking: Harvard’s Project Zero researchers provide thinking routines and other approaches to help students make their thinking visible. Several thinking routines were listed here under the PRIME and SECONDARY strategies. Several of the strategies have students sketchnoting, mind mapping, journaling, etc. to make their thinking visible for reflection and assessment purposes.