Dr Revathy Parameswaran, Principal of P. S. Senior Secondary School (PSSS), Mylapore, Chennai, has been named to the National Teachers’ Award 2025 list released by India’s Ministry of Education.
She will receive the award from President Droupadi Murmu at the Teachers’ Day ceremony on 5 September 2025.
National outlets, as well as the official press note, list her among 45 school-level awardees and identify P. S. Senior as her institution.
Chennai media have highlighted that Parameswaran has taught mathematics for more than three decades and now leads the well-known Mylapore school.
The school confirms her role as principal and a long-time mathematics teacher; its recognitions page congratulates her on the national honour, and her official profile details her leadership and academic work.
Parameswaran earned a PhD from the Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI), one of India’s premier mathematics centres.
Her research and practitioner writing include peer-reviewed work such as “On Understanding the Notion of Limits and Infinitesimal Quantities” (International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, Springer), alongside classroom-facing pieces on expert mathematical thinking and on teaching Rolle’s Theorem.
Conference biographies and public academic profiles also note her association with the National Board for Higher Mathematics and extensive experience teaching senior secondary mathematics.
Her international exposure includes a Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching semester at the University of Maryland’s College of Education (August-December 2013).
She has presented at the International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME) in Seoul (2012) and Hamburg (2016), speaking on the use of examples in mathematics and on formative assessment in Indian classrooms.
Beyond administration, Parameswaran maintains a visible public-education presence. She runs a YouTube channel aimed at CBSE Classes 10 and 12, offering topic walkthroughs that extend classroom practice into open, at-scale support for students.
Local coverage traces her P. S. Senior tenure back to 2001, noting her progression from mathematics teacher to principal alongside advanced study.
The school lists several honours recognising her teaching and leadership, including the Lady Kalyani Sivaswami Ayyar Best Teacher Award from The National Boys’ and Girls’ Education Society (where she delivered an endowment lecture on “Emerging Trends in Education”), a Best Researcher Award from the Association of Private Schools of Tamil Nadu, a felicitation by Tamil Nadu Governor R. N. Ravi for services to education, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Lions Clubs International (District 324L).
Education-sector profiles also record that she took charge as principal in 2018, describing a leadership style that blends classroom depth, research sensibility and a strong academic culture.
According to the Press Information Bureau, the National Teachers’ Award selection follows a three-stage online process — district, state and national.
The 2025 cohort comprises 45 school educators from across India, with the ceremony scheduled in New Delhi on 5 September.
Parameswaran appears in the CBSE category, with P. S. Senior named in the official roll; national media have carried the complete list.
Several strands define her professional arc. First, deep subject training paired with classroom longevity: a CMI doctorate and 30-plus years teaching senior secondary mathematics position her as a practitioner-researcher who can improve lesson design and assessment practice.
Second, a bridge between research and classrooms: her publications on conceptual foundations such as limits and Rolle’s Theorem align with her ICME talks on examples and formative assessment, keeping student understanding at the core.
Third, international benchmarking: the Fulbright semester and ICME appearances reflect an ongoing habit of testing ideas against global discourse in mathematics education.
Finally, institution-building and outreach: school-level recognition for leadership and quality management sits alongside a growing online footprint, suggesting a leader attentive to systems and students alike.
As the awards ceremony approaches, Chennai’s neighbourhood press has already marked the moment for the Mylapore community P. S. Senior serves.
For readers, Parameswaran’s selection is more than an individual accolade: it crowns a path that runs from rigorous doctoral training to classroom praxis, and from local leadership to national visibility.
