Classroom Management

I have been substitute teaching on Fridays. It has been a great experience for me. I really feel that it is helping me prepare to become successful in classroom management. By going into different classes as well as different grades I am able to see how each classroom is managed. I am also able to see how it changes from early elementary grades to older elementary grades.
Since I am only subbing in one school district I do see one behavior plan that is used by many teachers. The students start off on a green card. If they misbehave they pull a card and they are on yellow which is just a warning. The next color is red, which means inside at recess, and the last card is black which means call home and visit to principle. It tends to work on most students but I find that it doesn't faze the students that tend to misbehave all of the time. I do not see this kind of behavior method in the older grades. The last class I was in the students had to write their names on the board but I was not sure what their punishment was if that happened.
In a first grade classroom I had a student that was misbehaving and I tried to discuss the problem with him. Like in the section in Chapter 5 “When Behavior Agreement are Broken” I explained that he is not going to be punished but I needed to understand what was wrong so that we could work it out. We talked about it and he seemed to do better for about two hours then something else happened and it was another thing to work on. I believe that if I was in the classroom everyday it would help this student because I feel he needs an adult to listen to him.