Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 22; Flight Crew Total 393; Flight Crew Type 350
Training / Qualification; Situational Awareness; Confusion
Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control; Ground Excursion Runway
Flight Crew Regained Aircraft Control
Human Factors; Aircraft
The winds were calm and skies were clear. I was instructing a student in an Cessna 172; and coming in for landing. It was a normal landing and I was on the centerline and the airspeed was around 65 knots. I felt the main gear of my aircraft touch and then the airplane started to lift on the left side. I tried correcting the aircraft with aileron and rudder which seemed to only agitate it more. The aircraft swung even harder to the right. I decided to go the direction in which the aircraft  was veering as I was concerned with the aircraft flipping. So I went off the runway into the grass and didn't hit any sign on the airport or damage the aircraft. The aircraft was then towed back to the hangar.
A pilot conducting instruction reported losing control of the aircraft while landing and a runway excursion with no damage to the aircraft.