Before your students arrive for the first day of instruction, you need to do some preplanning. Preplanning means getting your classroom ready to receive students. You've got to meet teaching colleagues, pick up sets of textbooks, set up your computer grading program, schedule library time if possible, organize your classroom, prepare lessons, and do the thousand and one other things that teachers do to get ready. In this chapter, you'll learn how to prepare quickly and efficiently so when your students walk through your door they'll think you've been teaching for years — even if it happens to be your first day.