Small Aircraft
Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Instrument
Other / Unknown
Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; General Maintenance Action
Human Factors; Procedure
After having taken an X week break for Coronavirus; I was doing a currency flight with my student. Student had performed well on all other tasks. We came in for landing and did a few normal touch and goes before practicing short fields. During one of the short field landings; the student was holding the plane in the flare and we struck the tail on the ground. We noticed it after the flight due to the bent skid plate. The plane was immediately taken for a maintenance inspection.
Instructor pilot reported that while flying with a student they struck the ground with the tail of the aircraft during landing.