Landings, probably one of the biggest challenges of a student pilot. I will admit, it took me a little over 30 hours to get this down for good! At last, I made a few "greased" landings and after my final landing of the day my instructor said, "dude you got this"!
How do you teach students to land? I was taught 2 different ways. The first one, did not work. The second one did. The first method was to come down on final at 1,500 r.p.m. and start to cut power, very slowly (when the threshold starts disappearing from the dashboard, like 1, 2, 3, 4, sloooowly reduce power) and raise pitch sloowly. But I was too preoccupied with reducing power while not looking for outside visual cues. I landed flat, I almost hit the nose gear, I did drop in stall type hard landings, I even porpoised once, it was a mess!

The second method: Aim for the numbers, and right before the numbers starts to disappear from the dash, bring throttle to idle. This way, I was able to look farther ahead and see how mother Earth was raising and now I knew to raise pitch slowly, if the descend was not enough, hold it, and once she comes up again, raise pitch. Next thing I know, I had made a really smooth landing.

Any thoughts? I thought I would never get this down. The satisfaction is priceless, but how do you teach a student to land?