This week in school - we have been having preparing for the coming school term. So it means coming up with Schemes of Work and lesson plans. In the course of my work, I run into problems esp with teachers who are not trained and come from different backgrounds. Example no. 1 He is an ex br oadcast journalist and 55 years old. He has been in my dept for the past six months and is very opiniated. When I give handouts or worksheets as suggestions they are thrown away and not referred to at all. His idea of teaching kids is the communicative approach - talking and learning pronounciation. We discussed the scheme of work last week and I divided up the work of each term to each teacher to do. The first one he did was a disaster. This is after we discussed in detail and each teacher took notes on whats going to happen in the semester ( he did not take notes). Then I did a sample for him and other teachers to follow - u know splitting the unit into listening, speaking reading components and what activities they can do. He has to do Term 2. Today he gives it and its a whole rehash - and nothing subtantial - all abt talking abt this and telling this story and so on - nothing abt what they would have achieved at the end of the lesson. I have another teacher who is an ex-lawyer and he is just as bad - only comes up with a lot of experimental schemes to try with the kids but doesnt want to put in paper. These two are good friends - reinforcing each other's beliefs - they are the only non-trained ones in the dept. So I told the ex-journalist I will discuss with him tomoro abt the SOW. He said that I was making a big fuss over nothing and that he would devp the SOW as he went on. The other day the ex-lawyer said during the meeting that SOWs are totally unnecessary. So now I need to know how to deal with these two. Any suggestions?