Mark Spontak

Tell us why you became a teacher

I like setting up children for the next level. I like preparing them for the future. I love it when a child comes back to me and says you know what what I learned from you has helped me out many times thank you.

Tell us about your most memorable teaching experience

When I first started teaching, I was teaching PE in an elementary school. I was teaching a kindergarten class how to skip pretty simple locomotive movement and I remember the one time this girl got it. She had been trying for a few weeks and then all of a sudden she got it. It was like I gave her the keys to a brand new car she was skipping everywhere drove her parents nuts, and they loved it.

What would you do with the $25,000?

A majority of it would go into my son‘s health savings. I have a special-needs son who is born without feet, and it’s non-verbal with severe developmental delay lament a majority of it would go to his health savings for the future.