The National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) recently awarded Cypress Falls High School teacher Ann Kissinger Wurst its annual Distinguished Teaching Achievement (DTA) Award for 2002.
Awards were presented to 29 elementary and secondary teachers and 10 university/college professors from the United States and Canada. The DTA Awards recognize outstanding contributions to geographic education. Colleagues submitted nominations for the awards and a panel of judges selected winners at the elementary, middle school/junior high, senior high or post-secondary level.
Wurst has taught world geography since 1987, when she first began teaching at Northwest High School in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. She came to the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District in 1990 and taught at Cy-Fair High and Campbell Middle School before becoming the team leader for the world geography department at Cypress Falls.
Her previous honors include the Joe Janka Award, which was presented to her by the Cy-Fair Council for the Social Studies for her service to CFISD during the 1995-96 school year. She is also a founding member and the current president of the Friends of Geography (FOG)— a local chapter of National Geographic’s Teacher Education Program. Additionally, she is a National Geographic Society teacher consultant and will help to train more teachers in geographic education this summer at Southwest Texas State University.
Wurst will be presented with a plaque in recognition of her DTA award during a special ceremony at the annual NCGE meeting scheduled for October 16-19 in Philadelphia, Pa.
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