A teacher’s second period class is proving to be repeatedly disruptive during classroom instruction. Several interventions by the teacher have proven ineffective. The teacher decides to implement a system where every time he must stop class due to a student disruption, a check mark is placed on the board. If there are fewer than seven checkmarks at the end of the week, the students get 20 minutes of free time in the classroom. Why is this intervention likely to be more successful than the teacher’s previous attempts?

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A teacher’s second period class is proving to be repeatedly disruptive during classroom instruction. Several interventions by the teacher have proven ineffective. The teacher decides to implement a system where every time he must stop class due to a student disruption, a check mark is placed on the board. If there are fewer than seven checkmarks at the end of the week, the students get 20 minutes of free time in the classroom. Why is this intervention likely to be more successful than the teacher’s previous attempts?