What are didactic purposes?

What are didactic purposes? They're the goals teachers have when they help kids learn.

Imagine you’re playing a game, like hide-and-seek or tag. You know what you want to happen: you want your friends to find you, or you want to catch them! Didactic purposes are kind of like that. When a teacher plans a lesson, they think about what they want the kids to learn.

Think of learning as building with blocks. If you're trying to make a tall tower, your goal is to stack the blocks high. A teacher might have a similar goal, maybe they want students to understand how numbers work, or how plants grow. That’s their didactic purpose.

Sometimes teachers use stories or songs to help kids learn better, just like you might use a favorite toy to help you solve a problem. These are tools that help reach the goal of learning, which is the didactic purpose behind it all.