Virginia M. Jagla, PhD
Title:
Professor
Middle Grades Education Program
National College of Education
Programs/Classes Taught:
Graduate:
MGE 501 Introduction to Middle Grades Education: Young Adolescents in Context 1
MGE 503 Advocacy Practicum: Young Adolescents in Context 2
MGE 505 Teaching and Learning Practicum: Young Adolescents in Context 3
MGE 507 Voices and Choices in Middle Grades Education
MGE 509 Integrated Curriculum in the Middle Grades
MGE 520 Methods of Teaching Content Area Literacy in the Middle Grades
MGE 522 Engaging Young Adolescent Learners
MGE 590 Student Teaching: Young Adolescents in Context 4
MLE 500 Middle Level Overview
MLE 502 Middle Level Curriculum
MLE 516 Integrating the Arts at the Middle Level
RLL 480 Methods for Teaching Language Arts in the Elementary School
ELE 545 Methods for Teaching Arts Education
ELE 597 Resident Student Teaching
FND 501 Community Study
Undergraduate:
MGE 301 Introduction to Middle Grades Education: Young Adolescents in Context 1
MGE 303 Advocacy Practicum: Young Adolescents in Context 2
MGE 305 Teaching and Learning Practicum: Young Adolescents in Context 3
MGE 307 Voices and Choices in Middle Grades Education
MGE 309 Integrated Curriculum in the Middle Grades
MGE 320 Methods of Teaching Content Area Literacy in the Middle Grades
MGE 322 Engaging Young Adolescent Learners
MGE 390 Student Teaching: Young Adolescents in Context 4
MLE 300 Middle Level Overview
MLE 302 Middle Level Curriculum
Areas of Expertise:
- Teacher’s use of imagination and intuition
- Creative drama in the classroom across disciplines
- Service-learning P-12 and higher education
- Urban Education
- Professional Development Schools
- Middle Level Education
- Integrating the curriculum
- Arts integration in the basic curriculum
- Urban Teacher Residency
Biography:
Dr. Virginia Jagla is a Professor at National-Louis University in the Chicago area. She received her PhD in 1989 from the University of Illinois at Chicago in Curriculum and Instruction, her MS from the University of Chicago, and her BS from DePaul University. She has been a teacher and administrator in urban schools, museums and arts organizations. She has taught for various colleges and universities. Currently Dr. Jagla leads the NLU Civic Engagement Team, Program Chair Middle Grades Education Program, Editorial Board member of i.e: Inquiry in Education, Co-Editor of Student Perspectives About Civic Engagement (SPACE), Series Editor of Advances in Service-Learning Research for Information Age Publishing. She has been an editor of the online journal i.e.: inquiry in education, chair of the Middle Level Educators SIG of the Association of Teacher Educators and the chair of the Service-Learning & Experiential Education SIG of the American Educational Research Association. Dr. Jagla's first published book, Teachers’ Everyday Use of Imagination and Intuition: In Pursuit of the Elusive Image, was published in 1994. Other published books include: Transforming Teacher Education through Service-Learning (2013), Service-Learning Pedagogy: How Does It Measure Up? (2015), Service-Learning to Advance Social Justice in a Time of Radical Inequality (2015), and Educating Teachers and Tomorrow’s Students through Service-Learning Pedagogy (2017). Dr. Jagla also has numerous published chapters and articles in various juried journals. She is a frequent presenter at local, national, and international conferences and symposia. Her research interests include imagination and intuition in education, the use of the visual and creative arts in education, with particular emphasis on creative drama; urban education and service-learning, particularly as it applies to middle level education.
Education:
PhD University of Illinois at Chicago (Curriculum & Instruction) 1989
MS University of Chicago (Reading) 1976
BS DePaul University (Elementary Education) 1970
Research and Interests:
Middle Grades Education
Service-learning
Urban Education
