Problem
A school-aged child engages in disruption in his classroom (e.g., throwing his writing utensils at his teacher and peers) during independent reading time, which results in him being sent to the principal's office. The child's problem behavior, like throwing his writing materials to his classmates and teacher that causes disruption during independent reading time will be eliminated through the use of behavior management techniques and differential reinforcement of other behaviors (DRO). For this scenario, the teacher will eliminate the disruptive behavior by reinforcing the absence or the non-occurrence of the problem behavior. By this the teacher will reinforce any positive behavior that the child exhibits, except the behavior that the teacher is trying to eliminate.
With the above hypothesized function of the behavior how does this supports the rationale for your choice of DRO?