Today’s Traditional clinical learning driven by competitive placement opportunities and challenges. Teaching Faculty are not prepared to utilize adult teaching strategies and resort to pedagogical methods using lecture, memorization,quizzes, and examinations. According to nursing education organizations, faculty should be teaching with more interactive, student-centered, adult methods.The nurse educators are frequently not prepared to use timely teaching strategies and may resort to teaching nursing students the way they were taught - using methods such as lecture, memorization, quizzes, and examinations. Andragogy is an adult focused teaching approach while Pedagogy is a child focused teaching approach.This short communication attempts to bring a glimpse on modern adult education strategies needed for the present day nurse educators.

Keywords: Andragogy; Pedagogy; Adult Learning.