I was taught to reduce the throttle on the down wind leg and practice turning descending to 50' just flying the pattern aligning with the runway each time then working each pass lower and lower and finally landing. Each approach was made just above an idle trying to make the approach without any elevator input so you learn dead sticks at the same time. About 4 trips to the field and lots of sim time I was landing very well! On the sim (G2) I practiced lots of low slow flight and flew the limbo contest to practice! Good Luck!

Dwayne