Landing into wind is important - a 10 knot tailwind versus a 10 knot headwind on a 60kt approach means almost double the kinetic energy. The energy has to go somewhere. If you are lucky and it is a big enough field it will just heat up the brakes, but in the mean small fields around my part if the world it will probably go into the airframe.
Plenty of practice helps. Glide approaches from abeam the numbers or from the overhead are a very useful way to develop judgement of the glide all the way to a landing. Pulling the throttle randomly during later exercises helps the student to be ready and have the drills nailed.
A partial failure (eg loss of power, or rough running) is a bit neglected in the syllabus. Exercise 17 (Precautionary Landings) is very difficult to teach realistically and it is boring if done 5/600 ft higher than the real thing. Any ideas for that one?