Patience Anticipation Guide and Self-Assessment | SEL
Patience Anticipation Guide and Self-Assessment | SEL
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❤️ These Anticipation Guide and Self-Assessment Worksheets are identical to the ones included in the Patience Activity Worksheets packet!
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About This Resource
★ Topic - Patience | Calm Down | Self-Control
★ 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
Patience is a critical social-emotional skill that directly impacts how students handle frustration, stress, waiting, conflict, and emotional reactions. In a fast-paced world filled with constant stimulation, many students struggle to slow down, think before reacting, and manage their emotions when things don’t go as planned.
This Patience Anticipation Guide and Self-Assessment helps students thoughtfully explore what patience really looks like in everyday life—and how their current habits, beliefs, and reactions affect their relationships, learning, and decision-making.
Through reflective statements and a structured self-rating tool, students examine their patience in realistic situations such as waiting, managing irritation, responding to others, handling delays, and controlling emotional reactions.
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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 Patience 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
★ Staying calm when things take longer than expected
★ Thinking before reacting emotionally
★ Managing frustration and irritation
★ Handling delays and waiting without overreacting
★ Responding respectfully during emotional conversations
★ Practicing patience with themselves and others
★ Recognizing physical and emotional signs of impatience
SELF-ASSESSMENT
This resource includes a Patience Self-Assessment designed to help students reflect on how they manage frustration, waiting, stress, and emotional reactions in everyday situations. It features a student-friendly scoring guide at the bottom to make self-reflection clear, accessible, and meaningful.
Through thoughtful, realistic statements, students examine how they respond when things don’t go as planned, when they feel annoyed or overwhelmed, and when they are required to slow down or wait. By rating their own behaviors, students identify personal strengths, recognize patterns of impatience, and pinpoint areas where they may need additional support or practice.
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 better understand students’ patience levels, emotional regulation skills, and stress responses. It can be used to guide class discussions, support goal setting, monitor growth over time, and provide targeted feedback that encourages healthier coping strategies and stronger self-control.
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