Tootling: A Classwide Peer-Mediated Intervention for Decreasing Antisocial and Disruptive Behavior and Enhancing Prosocial Behaviors and Academic Engagement

Improving Secondary Student Classroom Behavior With an IGC

“…Two example intervention models of IGCs applied at the secondary level are Tootling and Class-Wide Function-Related Intervention Teams (CW-FIT; Chaffee et al, 2020;Wills et al, 2019). Tootling combines an IGC with positive peer reporting in which students anonymously write positive comments about their peers' behaviors (Chaffee et al, 2020;Crewdson et al, 2023;Harry et al, 2022;Lum et al, 2017Lum et al, , 2019. The collection of positive comments is reviewed by the teacher at the end of the class period.…”

“…As a class-wide intervention, Tootling has led to increases in student academic engagement and decreases of disruptive behavior (Chaffee et al, 2020;Harry et al, 2022;Lum et al, 2017Lum et al, , 2019. Although Tootling can foster improvement to student behavior and resources are available for teachers interested in implementing this model (e.g., Crewdson et al, 2023), students might show resistance to writing positive comments about their peers (Chaffee et al, 2020) and instead perceive this as a responsibility of the teacher. This could require additional teaching time to support students in development of positive commenting skills.…”