High school and college teachers will benefit from reading this article offering concrete suggestions for teaching language and culture using a backward curriculum design. This design focuses on what students can do or produce rather than on what they know. Using the Standards as a guiding framework, the author describes five steps for teaching culture and assessing student performance. The article refers specifically to teaching about French gestures; the appendices give sample lessons and assessment guidelines for Spanish and German.#HighSchool #ClassroomExamples #Standards #JournalArticle #Curriculum #All5Cs #Principalfocus #All #Assessment