Identity Anticipation Guide and Self-Assessment | SEL

About This Resource

★ Topic - Identity

★ Anticipation Guide and Self-Assessment

★ 3 pages

★ Suitable for Middle and High School Students

★ Print and Digital (PDF and Google Slides)

★ SEL-related resource

This resource includes:

★ One Anticipation Guide in* two* variations (one with a "comments" section and one without - same statements).

★ One Self-Assessment Worksheet

★ Google Slides Link

Identity is a core social-emotional concept that shapes how students see themselves, relate to others, make decisions, and navigate the world around them. During adolescence especially, students are constantly influenced by peers, family expectations, labels, social media, achievements, and outside opinions—often while still trying to understand who they truly are.

This Identity Anticipation Guide helps students thoughtfully explore what identity means, how it develops over time, and how internal beliefs and external influences interact. Through reflective statements and structured discussion, students examine identity in relation to values, choices, labels, mistakes, belonging, social media, and self-perception.

By responding to thought-provoking statements, students are encouraged to slow down, question assumptions, and reflect on how identity shapes behavior, confidence, and decision-making.

The Identity Self-Assessment invites students to evaluate how strongly different influences affect their sense of self. Students reflect on areas such as how much they are shaped by others’ opinions, how comfortable they feel being authentic, how they respond to labels or expectations, how mistakes impact their self-image, and how online and offline identities compare. By rating their own thoughts and behaviors, students identify patterns, strengths, and areas for growth.

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Anticipation Guides are excellent tools that can be used before reading to activate students' prior knowledge and build curiosity about a new topic and/or to share ideas about key concepts. Students respond to several statements that challenge or support their preconceived ideas about key concepts as well as their peers’ ideas. The Anticipation Guides can help structure meaningful conversations that reviews what students already know and engages them in critical thinking about the topic they will be exploring. The statements in the Anticipation Guides can spark some great discussions among students!! This Anticipation Guide and Self-Assessment focuses on Patience.

You can use an Anticipation Guide:

✅ Before | After introducing new material to tap into prior knowledge.

✅ Before | After watching a film clip to gauge a reaction.

✅ Before | After reading a short text to begin a discussion.

✅ Before | After discussing a topic.

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ANTICIPATION GUIDES

This resource includes ONE Identity Anticipation Guide, provided in two different variations to fit your classroom needs.

▶️ Variation #1

⭐ Part 1:
Students read a series of patience-related statements and indicate whether they AGREE or DISAGREE with each one by marking the appropriate column.

⭐ Part 2:
Students then choose one statement from the list and reflect on its importance to them. They may explain how it connects to their own experiences, describe a related situation, or share why the statement stands out to them personally.

▶️ Variation #2

This version of the Anticipation Guide includes the same set of statements, along with columns labeled AGREE, DISAGREE, and COMMENTS.

Students read each statement, mark whether they AGREE or DISAGREE, and then expand on their thinking by writing reflections, explanations, or personal insights in the COMMENTS column for each statement.

Skills Students Will Reflect On

★ Understanding how identity develops over time

★ Recognizing internal vs. external influences on identity

★ Examining labels, assumptions, and stereotypes

★ Reflecting on authenticity and belonging

★ Exploring the role of social media in self-image

★ Separating mistakes from self-worth

★ Respecting identities that are different from their own

SELF-ASSESSMENT

This resource includes an Identity Self-Assessment designed to help students reflect on how their beliefs, experiences, relationships, and external influences shape how they see themselves and express who they are.

Students will score each statement using the following scale:

2 = Regularly | 1 = Occasionally | 0 = Never

This self-assessment also serves as a valuable tool for teachers, counselors, and advisors to gain insight into students’ self-perception, identity development, and external influences, helping guide meaningful discussions, targeted support, and goal setting.

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Your purchase includes one copy to be used in a single classroom. If you are looking for multiple copies, please be sure to purchase additional licenses.

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Please feel free to email me if you have any questions!

queenseducationalresources@gmail.com