To promote intrinsic motivation and scaffold students into a more student-centered pedagogy, a strategy I use is a modified-choice menu. The choice provides an alternative approach to the art project to peak interest and creativity. This also provides opportunities to differentiate the lesson to challenge oneself or alternatively to take on an approach that is familiar and comfortable.

Using the universal design for learning (UDL) allows for all students to have the opportunity to succeed, which is why I provide versions of modified-choice menus to full-on choice in some of the projects I assign. This approach offers flexibility in the ways students access material, engage with it, and show what they know.