Implementing Tootling Interventions: A Practitioner?s Guide to Increasing Peer Prosocial Behaviors

This book is a comprehensive guide to the history and implementation of the tootling intervention that was designed to increase prosocial behaviors in school-aged children.

Implementing Tootling Interventions provides practitioners with the resources and information needed to implement tootling effectively and successfully in their desired setting to increase prosocial behavior, decrease disruptive behavior, and increase academic engaged time for students. To address individuals of all abilities and ages, modifications are provided for early childhood education, elementary education, middle school, high school, special education, after-school programs, and more intensive behavioral settings. Specific components within tootling that lead to its effectiveness are discussed, along all the information and resources needed for this feasible, cost-effective intervention to be implemented.

This book is ideal for classroom teachers, school psychologists, social workers, or other school professionals looking for a practical and effective intervention to increase the prosocial behavior of their students.

Dr. Hilt-Panahon is a professor of special education at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She earned her Ph.D. in School Psychology from Syracuse University and has worked in the field of education for over 25 years.

Dr. Kennedi Alstead is a practicing school psychologist with the St. Michael-Albertville school district in St. Michael, MN. She recently earned her Psy.D. in School Psychology from Minnesota State University, Mankato.