Today’s guest is Amanda Nitti.
- Click above or listen to the episode on your favourite podcast platform here (Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Podchaser, Overcast, Castbox, etc)
Today’s Guest
Amanda Nitti
Amanda Nitti is a teacher at Dovercourt Public School in Toronto, Canada, who currently teaches a Grade 5/6 split class. She has been a teacher for 6 years and has come up with a classroom management system that highlights important financial and non-financial knowledge, skills and concepts through experiential learning. Amanda is based in Toronto.
- Connect with Amanda | Twitter
You’ll Learn:
- What inspired Amanda to become a teacher
- Her classroom economy system and how it teaches vital financial literacy skills to her students in a fun, engaging way
- How she gets buy-in from her students on the types of jobs in the classroom
- How her students must apply for jobs in the classroom
- How she teaches the concept about buying vs. renting their desks
- How she highlights the value of entrepreneurship as part of this system through the idea of the Class Market
- The importance of tracking your cash inflows and outflows in making spending decisions and budgeting
- The fun way she teaches needs vs wants
- Non-financial and vital values that students are learning
- Rewards and items that can be purchased using “Nitti Bucks”
- The importance of keeping kids accountable
- Keys to ensuring kids are making informed decisions about their money
- The importance of teaching kids about sales taxes
Resources
- Teachers Pay Teachers
- Fish In a Tree, by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
- Blended, by Sharon Draper
- Follow and tag moneydadpodcast on Instagram to comment on topics and ideas discussed during the episode that resonated with you or share with a friend
Thanks for listening!
Have some feedback you’d like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below!
If you enjoyed the episode, please share it on Instagram.
Like this show? Please leave a review on Apple or Podchaser – even one sentence helps! Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each one of them. Post a screenshot of you listening in Instagram and tag me so I can thank you personally!
Don’t forget to subscribe to the show to get automatic updates. I’ll be dropping a new episode every TUESDAY!
Thanks to Amanda for joining me this week!
In case you missed it, make sure to catch up on last week’s episode “Episode 041: Raising your Money Savvy Family for Next Generation FI with Doug Nordman and Carol Pittner”!
Leave a Reply