Virginia M. Jagla, Ph.D.

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

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 is the Program Chair for both the Elementary and Middle Grades Education Programs, 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 (2018).  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.

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

vjagla@nl.edu