The use of a checklist is the most helpful thing an instructor can do to help ease the first-class nerves. Checklist(s) should be made and kept handy.

A manager is a person that makes sure that everything and everyone comes together at the point that learning needs to occur

For the first day of class you had to carefully prepare what you were going to say and do. It’s no different for the remaining days of the term, except now you’ll be involved in actively teaching (delivering) the course content to your students.

In meeting the class for the first time, it's important for the instructor to set the stage that portrays respect among students and the instructor.