Math expert Rachel McAnallen works with a small group of gifted children in Ogden, Utah from her home office in Denver, Colorado while their teacher looks on. As Rachel instructs the students she frequently stops and interacts with the teacher, explaining the many complex and subtle details of teaching. Because Rachel can meet with these students and teachers without having to travel, they can meet frequent, briefly, and efficiently. This allows her to provide differentiated instruction to both students and their teachers.

Rachel teaches students in Ogden, Utah geometry from her office in Denver, Colorado. Rachel is sitting in front of the Telepresence Center, which allows her to appear as a life-size image and enables mutual eye-gaze, a technology that is unique in the industry.

Rachel McAnallen appears in front of a class in Ogden, Utah from her office in Denver as a "holographic" image. She can see, hear and interact with the class almost as if she were there in person. This allows Rachel to model best practices for teachers with their students. As she teaches, Rachel frequently stops and interacts with the observing teacher, explaining what she is doing and thinking. This interaction is referred to as cognitive apprenticeship in the psychological literature.

A document camera integrated into the Telepresence Center at Rachel McAnallen's office allows her to display mathematical manipulatives, objects, printed documents. She can also write underneath the document camera, as with a black board. A button-press allows her to switch back and forth between displaying her image and the document camera image. However, she can see and hear the class at all times.

The Virtual Teacher is but one of many options available for achieving telepresence. The specific nature of the technology used to enable the coaching model is not as important at the model itself. However, this particularly advanced technology has several benefits over other, more traditional forms of technology. The Virtual Teacher represents one of the most advanced video-conferencing technologies available anywhere today.